Handkerchief

Object | Accession Number: 1991.88.2

Overview

Brief Narrative: Handkerchief given to Mira Ryczke by Cicilie Imre, M.D. at Auschwitz concentration camp.
Date: found: 1944 September
Geography: acquired: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mira Kimmelman
Contributor: Subject: Cicilie Imre
Subject: Mira Kimmelman
Biography: Genia Ryczke died in Treblinka in 1942. Benno Benjamin Ryczke died during a death march from Mauthausen concentration camp in April 1945. After the war, Moritz Ryczke immigrated first to the United States in 1949 and then to Israel in 1972 where he lived until his death in 1979. Mira Ryczke and Max Kimmelman both returned to Germany after the war where they met in 1946 and immigrated to the United States two years later. Max died in 1990. Natan Laznowski returned first to Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1951 where he lived until his death in 1972.

Classification: Dress Accessories
Category: Handkerchiefs
Object Type: Handkerchiefs (lcsh)
Physical Description: White linen with red and blue printed decoration.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 8.270 inches (21.006 cm) | Width: 7.990 inches (20.295 cm)
Materials: overall : cloth, dye

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The handkerchief was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman, a family friend of Cicilie Imre.