Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Wallet related to the experiences of Harold (Hersz) Berlinski
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dorothy Kessler
Physical Details
- Classification
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Dress Accessories
- Category
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Carried dress accessories
- Object Type
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Wallets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- measurements are of wallet closed
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm) | Width: 6.880 inches (17.475 cm)
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The wallet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Dorothy Kessler, the niece of Harold (Hersz) Berlinski.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-08-19 12:50:32
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn677721
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Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, wallet, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325) and Kaufering where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in January 1951 with the assistance of the International Refugee Organization under the US Displaced Persons Act.
Hersz Berlinski papers
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Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325), and Kaufering, where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in January 1951 with the assistance of the International Refugee Organization under the US Displaced Persons Act.
