Denes-Deszo and Borbala Nussbacher Herskovits collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72309
• English
• a: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Rotbart Mond-Extra safety razor with double edge blade used by Denes-Deszo (Duzsi) Herskovits and possibly acquired when he was interned at Ditro, a forced labor camp in Hungary. Duzsi lived in Nagybanya, in Transylvania, an area of Romania absorbed in August 1940 by Hungary. In 1941, Duzsi was conscripted into forced labor for the Hungarian Army and sent to labor camps in Ditro and Csikrakos. At some point in 1944, Duzsi and six friends escaped the labor camp. On February 2, 1945, they were captured by German troops, who had occupied Hungary since March 1944. Duzsi and the others were depo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72310
• English
• overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Brown plastic lice comb used by Borbala (Babi) Nussbacher while imprisoned at Auschwitz, Riga, Stutthof, Guttau and Neumark concentration camps from May 1944-May 1945. Babi, her husband Josef Polak, her parents, and siblings lived in Cehu Silvaniei, in Transylvania, an area of Romania absorbed in August 1940 by Hungary. Josef was put into a forced labor battalion for the Hungarian Army and sent to Ukraine, where he later perished. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary. Babi and her family were forced into the Szilagysomlyo ghetto in 1944 and deported to Auschwitz in May 1944. Babi’s fathe...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn72311
• English
• 1943
• folder 1
• Updated 8 months ago

Consists of a photograph of Denes-Deszo "Duzsi" Herskovits in the Ditro forced labor camp in Hungary, dated 1943.