Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Glenn Meyers and Debbie Smith, children of Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a charm bracelet, handkerchief, wooden jewelry box, a patch, napkin holder, and ORT key award, correspondence, documents, identity papers, and photographs related to the experiences of Ruth Engelhardt Spivack (later Meyers) and her mother Helene Engelhardt, during and after the Holocaust when Ruth lived in Montmorency OSE home in France prior to being sent on a September 1941 USCOM transport to the United States, where she lived with the Spivack family in Cleveland.
Genre
- Collection