Overview
- Brief Narrative
- The wallet is part of a collection consisting of documents, notebooks, diaries, photographs, identification documents, correspondence, telegrams, and a passport documenting the experiences and survival of the Kurc family, originally from Radom, Poland, during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The wallet originally contained 20 pages of documents from 1940, including French military and other documentation about attempts to escape from Europe by ship from Marseille, France.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the grandchildren and great grandchildren of Shlomo and Nechuma Kurc
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
- Brown and black leather, possibly snakeskin, wallet with two interior pockets.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.906 inches (15.001 cm) | Width: 3.937 inches (10 cm) | Depth: 0.295 inches (0.749 cm)
- Materials
- overall : leather, thread
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 wallet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2024 by Ricardo Eichenwald, Anna Prasquier, Josef Kurc, Michel Kurc, Kathleen Courts, Isabelle Courts Hunter, Timothy Courts, and Georgia Hunter Farinholt.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-07-11 15:31:57
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn758005
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Kurc family papers
Document
The collection consists of documents, notebooks, diaries, photographs, identification documents, correspondence, telegrams, a passport, and a wallet documenting the experiences and survival of the Kurc family, originally from Radom, Poland, during the time period surrounding the Holocaust.
