Elisabet Goldstein collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn513122
• English
• 1937
• overall: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Teaspoon with the Nazi German Luftwaffe insignia engraved on the end. The spoon was acquired by Elisabet Goldstein in 1945 while a prisoner at Salzwedel, a wire and metal goods factory that was a satellite of Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany. Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, along with 18,000 other Jewish people in the area, were sent to the Kolozsvár ghetto. Within a month the ghetto was liquidated and the prisoners w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn520902
• English
• a: Height: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) b: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Concentration camp uniform jacket that was worn by Isidor Goldstein, husband of Elisabet Goldstein, when he was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1944. The jacket is made from a thin striped material sometimes referred to as “pajama stripes.” An embroidered post-liberation Buchenwald patch with the number 110099 was stitched to the breast, but has since been removed. Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, alon...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn520903
• English
• overall: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Concentration camp pants worn by Isidor Goldstein, husband of Elisabet Goldstein, when he was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp. The pants are made from a thin striped material sometimes referred to as “pajama stripes.” Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, along with 18,000 other Jewish people in the area, were sent to the Kolozsvár ghetto. Within a month the ghetto was liquidated and the prisoners were transported to Aus...