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Alfred and Elsa Dukes collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of a man’s nightshirt and a woman’s nightgown relating to the experiences of Alfred and Elsa Dukes and their daughter, Gertrude, in Austria before and during the Holocaust and in the United States following their emigration in 1939.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Dr. Elaine Fox, the granddaughter of Alfred and Elsa Dukes.
Date
1939
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Man's tailored nightshirt with braided trim brought to the US by a Jewish Austrian refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2013.396.1

Geography
manufacture: Vienna (Austria)
Date
emigration:  1939 July

Woman's nightgown with lacework trim brought to the US by a Jewish Austrian refugee

Object | Accession Number: 2013.396.2

Geography
received: Vienna (Austria)
Date
emigration:  1939 July
 
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