Bertha and Eliazer Davids family collection

Identifier: irn35875
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn35875

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Blanche Davids Gewirtz, the daughter of Bertha and Eliazer Davids.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the extended families of Bertha Kaufman Davids and Eliazer Davids in the Netherlands, Poland, and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

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Blanche Davids Gewirtz papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38216
- English
- boxes 3
- Updated 7 months ago
Photographs, legal documents, and correspondence from donor's paternal uncle, Leo Davids, who immigrated to the United States and facilitated the donor's parents immigration to the US in 1938. Includes a second group of materials consisting of photos and papers belonging to donor's mother's grandmother Fanny Kaufman, and her parents Bernard and Pauline Fischer. A majority of the donor's extended family on both sides perished in the Auschwitz and Sobibor concentration camps in 1942 and 1943.
Handbook
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38219
- English
- 1870
- Updated 7 months ago
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38220
- English
- 1893
- Updated 7 months ago
Prayer book with red leather covers, gold stamping and black cardboard sleeve.
Prayer book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38221
- English
- 1929
- Updated 7 months ago
Black ribbon watch fob from prewar Netherlands
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38222
- English
- 1893
- overall: Height: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Watch fob that belonged to Eliazer Davids and previously to his father, Leman Davids. A watch fob was used to retrieve a pocket watch from a vest or waist pocket. They were common before wristwatches were introduced in the early 20th century. The Davids were an observant Jewish family who had lived in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for several generations. Leman was a diamond broker and cutter who died of natural causes in 1930. Eliazer ran a linen business. In December 1938, Eliazer and his wife, Bronislawa Perlberg, emigrated to the United States with the assistance of Eliazer’s uncle, Leo Groen...
Plaque celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38223
- English
- 1938
- a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 7.380 inches (18.745 cm) b: Height: 6.380 inches (16.205 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Commemorative plaque owned by Eliazer Davids that celebrates the 300th anniversary of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The service, attended by Eliazer, was held in the Main Synagogue which was built in 1871. Eliazer was from an observant Jewish family who had lived in Amsterdam, Netherlands, for several generations. Many were diamond brokers and cutters. In December 1938, Eliazer and his wife, Bronislawa (Bertha) Perlberg, left for the United States with the assistance of Eliazer’s uncle, Leo Groen, who lived in New York and submitted affidavits of support for their visas...

Bertha and Eliazer Davids family collection

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Blanche Davids Gewirtz papers

Handbook

Book

Prayer book

Black ribbon watch fob from prewar Netherlands

Plaque celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Ashkenazi community in Amsterdam