Edward Smolarz collection
Collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a handmade belt and a tefillin set and pouch relating to the experiences of Idek (later Edward) Smolarz during the Holocaust in Auschwitz I concentration camp and after the Holocaust in Wels, Austria.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Edward Smolarz.
- Date
- 1944-1945
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- Geography
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use:
Czechoslovakia
received: Wels (Austria)
- Date
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received:
after 1945 May
- Geography
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use:
Czechoslovakia
received: Wels (Austria)
- Date
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received:
after 1945 May
- Geography
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use:
Czechoslovakia
received: Wels (Austria)
- Date
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received:
after 1945 May
- Geography
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creation:
Auschwitz I (Concentration camp);
Oświęcim (Poland)
use: Sosnowiec (Concentration camp); Sosnowiec (Województwo Śląskie, Poland)
use: Mauthausen (Concentration Camp); Mauthausen (Austria)
use: Wien-Hinterbruhl (Concentration camp); Hinterbruhl (Austria)
use: Gunskirchen (Concentration camp); Gunskirchen (Austria)
- Date
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creation:
approximately 1944 January-1944 March
use: approximately 1944 January-1945 May
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Record last modified: 2019-12-04 15:04:07
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn92309
Browse 4 Items In This Collection
Embroidered brown tefillin bag used by a Jewish Polish man
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.1
Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.2 a-b
Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.3 a-b
Brown leather belt secretly made by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.2 a-b
