Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Shirt that Robert was wearing when he jumped from the train and was shot.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Audrey Rogers Furfaro and Scott Rogers
Physical Details
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Men's clothing
- Object Type
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Shirts, Men's (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Off white, cotton polo shirt with collar and 3 plastic buttons at the center
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cotton, thread, plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The shirt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018 by Audrey Rogers Furfaro and Scott Rogers, the children of Robert Rogers.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-06 16:30:54
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713014
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Also in Rottenberg family collection
Documents and photographs related to Robert Rogers (originally Robert Rottenberg) and his parents Elias David (Eddy) Rottenberg and Bertha (Berkelhammer) Rottenberg, all of who jumped from Transport XX en route to Auschwitz. Also includes the shirt that Robert was wearing when he jumped from the train and was shot.
Rottenberg family papers
Document
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Rottenberg family of Vienna, Austria. Included are biographical materials and photographs of Eddy (born Elias) and Bertha Rottenberg and their son Bobby (born Robert), all of whom survived deportation to Auschwitz from the Mechelen transit camp by jumping off the train in April 1943. The collection also includes material related to Bertha’s family, the Berkelhammers. Biographical material includes birth and marriage certificates, identification cards, a 1931 letter to Bertha authorizing her to trade in mineral oils and spirits, Eddy’s Austrian passport, an Austrian transit card, and four slips from the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien regarding grave site locations for members of the Rottenberg and Berkelhammer families. Also included are Bertha and Eddy’s Declaration of Intention forms after their immigration to the United States in 1948. Photographs consist of pre-war, wartime, and post-war depictions of the Rottenberg family and Bertha’s family the Berkelhammers. Included are depictions of Bertha as a child with her parents Abraham and Sara and her sister Paula; wartime and post-war images of Robert and his parents in Brussels, Eddy’s father Hersch Leib Rottenberg, someone who may have been a priest Bobby knew while in hiding, and Bobby in his U.S. Army uniform.
