Peter Zvi Fuchs-Zinner family collection

Identifier: irn735948
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2020 by Rafaela Fuchs-Zinner, the widow of Peter (Zvi) Fuchs-Zinner.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of documents, postcards sent from a forced labor camp, scrip from Auschwitz concentration camp and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, and family photographs relating to the experiences of Peter (Zvi) Zinner and his extended Zinner and Braun family members from Yugoslavia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina) before and during the Holocaust.

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Peter Zvi Fuchs-Zinner papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn724195
- English
- 1933-1945
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The papers consist of documents, postcards, scrip from Auschwitz concentration camp, and family photographs relating to the experiences of Peter (Zvi) Zinner and his extended Zinner and Braun family members from Yugoslavia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina) before and during the Holocaust. The photographs include two original photos of the Braun family and selected photographs of Peter (Zvi) with his mother, nanny, and friends. Also included are two photos of his cousin, with whom he was hidden in a bunker, and photo of his parents. Peter’s father did not survive. There are five postcards from ...
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by Peter (Zvi) Fuchs-Zinner
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn735949
- English
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, relating to the experiences of Peter (Zvi) Zinner and his extended Zinner and Braun family members from Yugoslavia (later Bosnia and Herzegovina) before and during the Holocaust. Currency was confiscated from new inmates and replaced with scrip like this, which could only be used in the camp.

Peter Zvi Fuchs-Zinner family collection

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Peter Zvi Fuchs-Zinner papers

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by Peter (Zvi) Fuchs-Zinner