Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Soap issued to Esther Moses, October-November 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Esther Zelmanovits Moses was interred in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was given this bar of soap when she was sent to work in Hamburg on November 26, 1944. She carried it with her for the remainder of the war. Her husband, Herbert Moses hid the bar of soap in his father-in-law's, Sam Zelman, store in Kansas.
- Date
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1944
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Esther Moses
Physical Details
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Object Type
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Soap (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- rectangular greyish white solid block
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
- Materials
- overall : soap
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The soap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Esther Moses.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 12:04:20
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9727
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