Miriam Patipa prayer book
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Patipa. In memory of my parents, brother, sisters and their children, who were killed by the Nazis.
The prayer-book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Miriam Patipa in 1998.
Scope and Content
The prayer book is a thirteen-page Hungarian translation of a published Hebrew prayer book completed by Miriam Patipa while she was working as a slave laborer rebuilding an oil refinery in Gelsenkirchen concentration camp. The Hebrew prayer-book belonged to a fellow laborer at Gelsenkirchen.
Corporate Bodies
- Gelsenkirchen (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- Judaism--Prayer-books and devotions.
- Women concentration camp inmates--Germany--Gelsenkirchen.
Genre
- Prayer book.
- Document