Leather wallet made by a concentration camp survivor in Landsberg DP camp

Identifier
irn610218
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.229.3
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Esther Klajner was born in Bedzin, Poland, on September 20, 1924, to Mordechai and Rifka Klajner. Esther had three younger brothers: Szmul, born 1926, Alter, born 1931, and Herszel, born 1936. Esther was deported from Bedzin in March 1943 to the slave labor camp Ober Altstadt, a subcamp of Gross Rosen, where she worked in a flax spinning mill with more than 1000 other Jewish women. They were liberated on May 8, 1945. Esther went to a displaced persons camp in Landsberg, Germany. She learned that her parents and brothers were deported by the Germans in August 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center and murdered. While in Landsberg, Esther met Norman Naftali Zylberminc and the couple married on March 19, 1946.

Archival History

The briefcase was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Esther Silver.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Esther Silver in memory of her husband Norman Naftali Silver

Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Scope and Content

Leather wallet created by Norman Naftali Zylberminc in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany in 1946. In March 1942, eighteen year old Norman was deported from Bedzin, Poland, to Gleiwitz slave labor camp, a sub-camp of Auschwitz, prisoner number 187370. In November 1944, he was brought to the Auschwitz infirmary and diagnosed with pneumonia. Norman was liberated by the Soviet Army in January 1945. After the war ended in May 1945, Norman went to Landserg. He met Esther Klajner, a slave labor camp survivor from Bedzin. The couple married on March 19, 1946.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Large, rectangular, dark brown, textured leather bifold wallet with multiple interior pockets.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.