Elsie A. Ragusin Azzinaro collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection consists of a patch, a pouch, three drawings, a prayer book, clippings, correspondence, notes, and photocopies relating to the experiences of Elsie Ragusin during World War II, when, in 1939, on a visit from the United States to Italy with her family, Elsie and her father were arrested as political spies, and Elsie was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps, and after the war when, after liberation, she was taken to Sweden to recover, and returned to the United States in December 1945.
Provenance: The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016, with an accretion in 2017.

Date: inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1944-1961
Date: use: 1945
Date: use: 1945
Geography: publication: Milan (Italy)
Date: publication: 1932
Date: undated:
Geography: creation: Ravensbrück (Concentration camp); Ravensbrück (Germany)
Date: creation: 1945 November 20
Date: undated:
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:30:51
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