Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Metal horseshoe charm from Ernest Feigl's key chain.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Peter Feigl
Physical Details
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Category
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Personal equipment
- Object Type
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Key fobs (aat)
- Genre/Form
- Accessories (Clothing & dress)
- Physical Description
- Horseshoe-shaped metal charm with loop at top. Had been attached to a keychain.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.063 inches (2.7 cm) | Width: 0.945 inches (2.4 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, there are no known copyright restrictions on the material(s) in this collection, or the material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The charm was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2023 by Peter Feigl.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 13:15:34
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn755235
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Also in Peter Feigl collection
The collection includes a horseshoe from Ernest Feigl's key chain, a charm from Agnes Feigl's charm bracelet and a spark plug (Ernst Feigl was a representative for the Champion spark plug company prior to the war). The spark plug was entrusted to Peter by Ernst, who visited him in Condom, France in 1942 before Ernst and Agnes were deported to Auschwitz. A number of ration stamps are also included. The collection also includes a cigarette box in which Peter kept the above-mentioned objects. Pre-war photographs and photograph album of Peter, Agnes and Ernst Feigl, as well as of extended family members, including Peter's paternal aunts and grandmother as well as his maternal side of the family. Dried flowers (Edelweiss) which were once attached to a photo album page. Correspondence and documents surrounding extended family as well as letters from Peter's parents before they were deported. Photographs, documents and correspondence relating to Peter's wife Leonie Warschauer and her parents, who were able to flee Nazi Germany in the late 1930s for the United States. The collection also includes blank postcards.
Date: circa 1942
Spark plug
Object
Spark plug that was entrusted to Peter by Ernst Feigl, a representative for the Champion spark plug company prior to the war, who visited him in Condom, France in 1942 before Ernst and Agnes were deported to Auschwitz.
Cigarette box
Object
Cardboard cigarette box in which ration stamps, charm, key chain piece and spark plug were kept by Peter Feigl.
