Overview
- 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.
Browse 4 Items In This Collection
Embroidered brown tefillin bag used by a Jewish Polish man
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.1
received: Wels (Austria)
Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.2 a-b
received: Wels (Austria)
Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.1.3 a-b
received: Wels (Austria)
Brown leather belt secretly made by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1993.156.2 a-b
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)
use: approximately 1944 January-1945 May
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