• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522825
• English
• 1939-1945
• a.: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b.: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.190 inches (0.483 cm)
• Updated 2 years ago

Gold hoop earrings worn by Sophia Kerpholz while she lived in hiding as a child from 1942-1944 in Poland. In early 1942, 9-year-old Sophia and her parents, Natan and Sarah, were imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Trembowla, Poland (Terebovlia, Ukraine) by the occupying German authorities. Sophia’s mother had to turn the earrings over to the Gestapo, but they were returned because they were too small and not valuable enough to take. When Sophia emigrated to Israel she was told that she was a new immigrant because she had earrings. Her father had escaped to Lvov, but ended up in the ghetto th...

1. Oral history interviews of the Holocaust Resource Center at Kean University collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504515
• English
• 1983
• 2 videocassettes (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
• Updated 2 years ago

1. Oral history interviews of the Ukrainian Witnesses Documentation Project

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn44933
• English
• 2 videocassettes (DVCAM), sound, color ; 1/4 in.
• Updated 2 years ago