Salzmann family collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of documents, correspondence, medical bags, a prayer book, and smoking pipes that relate to the experiences of Berthold Salzmann, his sister Ernesta Spieler, and their family in Austria, and Germany before and during the Holocaust and the United States during and after the Holocaust.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Martha Gay, the daughter of Berthold Salzmann.
- Date
- 1911-1953
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publication:
Vienna (Austria)
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publication:
1911
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manufacture:
New York
use: United States
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use:
after 1935
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use:
United States
manufacture: Warren (Pa.)
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after 1935
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use:
1939 June-1940 June
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acquired:
Germany
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acquired:
1950-1953
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acquired:
Germany
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acquired:
1950-1953
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acquired:
Germany
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acquired:
1950-1953
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Record last modified: 2019-12-05 21:14:06
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Berthold Salzmann collection
Document | Accession Number: 2017.541.1
Book of Exodus primer owned by a Jewish Austrian physician
Publication | Accession Number: 2017.541.2
Medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.3
Zippered leather medical bag used by an Austrian Jewish physician
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.4
Small suitcase with a metal handle used by a Jewish Austrian physician
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.5
Pipe with bowl carved in the shape of a bull’s head
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.6
Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Hitler’s head
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.7
Tobacco pipe with a bowl carved into the shape of Churchill’s head
Object | Accession Number: 2017.541.8