Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Pencil from the Gerson family's company in Vienna.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marcelle Faust
Physical Details
- Classification
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Office Equipment and Supplies
- Category
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Writing materials
- Object Type
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Pencils (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Pencil with a used, sharpened tip miprinted with a company address and telephone number.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wood, paint, graphite
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The pencil was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Marcelle Faust.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:51:07
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The collection consists of a pencil, a juicer, and documents relating to the experiences of Emma Muller, originally from Austria, who was imprisoned in La Bastide de Bousignac and Gurs internment camps in southern France, released in 1941, and then emigrated to the United States.
Date: approximately 1941
Marcelle Faust collection
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Documents and writings illustrating the experiences of Emma Muller (donor's maternal grandmother), an Austrian Jew who was interned in the Gurs internment camp in southern France, released, and able to immigrate to the United States in 1941. Included in the collection is the work authorization issued to Emma in Amiens, France; her release authorization from Gurs; a French rail ticket; and hand written notes that briefly describe her experiences. Emma wrote that she was interned in La Bastide de Bousignac (Ariege) and then Gurs; on a second note she wrote that she went 85km by foot, during bombings to Paris, where she was arrested, deported, and "beaten like an animal."
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