Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Wooden trap door that belonged to a house located at Lvivska Street no. 35, Zolkiew (Zhovka), Ukraine, whose crawl space under the floorboards served as a hiding place for Jews during the Holocaust. The trap door and hiding place are described in detail in the Holocaust memoir "Clara's War: One Girl's Story of Survival", by Clara Kramer.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Architectural Elements
- Category
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Buildings and structures
- Object Type
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Trapdoors (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Wooden trap door with planks in a chevron pattern. Metal handles on the bottom.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 30.500 inches (77.47 cm) | Width: 21.500 inches (54.61 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wood, metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The trap door was acquired by the USHMM in 2017.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:51:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn595927
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