Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

Identifier: irn50724
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 1993 by Frances Rosenbum Hirshfeld, the wife of Julian Hirshfeld.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a blanket, a pin, a pouch, a towel, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of Franka Rosenblum and Julian Hirshfeld and their families in Poland and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and in a displaced persons camp in Paris, France, where they married after the end of World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Displaying items 1 to 13 of 13

Greeting card
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25614
- English
- 1938
- 1 greeting card,
- Updated 1 year ago
Greeting card for Jewish New Year; from J. and R. Wajman and family with printed message sending hearty wishes for the Jewish year 5697; verso, stamped by the printer in purple ink; Opatów, Poland. Also includes the envelope, addressed to "A.H. Wyman, 1386 Arondale ave, Jacksonville Fla U.S.A.;" verso, return address from Josef Wajman, Opatów, Poland, 10 Grosz paper stamp with green ink of a mountain scene; 15 September 1936 (cancellation); Opatów, Poland (postmark).
Greeting card
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn25615
- English
- 1934
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Greeting card for Jewish New Year; from Leonostwo Klinger with printed message sending hearty wishes for the Jewish year 5693; inscription in pencil (illegible); Zawiercie, Poland; 1934.
Frances Hirshfeld photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516275
- English
- 1921-1950
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists of 14 photographs of members of Julian Hirshfeld and Frances Hirshfeld's families before World War II as well as a photograph taken on the day of the Hirshfelds' civil marriage ceremony in Belgium in 1946.
Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517247
- English
- overall: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Button cover with number 178284 given to Julian Hirshfeld when he was a displaced person in Paris, where he was sent after his liberation from Buchenwald by US troops on April 11, 1945. The pin was issued by the Federation Nationale des deportes Internes resistants Patriotes (FNDIRP) in April 1945 to honor the memory of Charles Oschkor, 178284 was his prisoner number. Oschkor was a former kapo of Blechhammer concentration camp who sacrificed himself to save other prisoners. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. Julian, a Jewish textile engineer, was interned in Łódź Ghetto ...
Doctor Ibrahim Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8125
- English
- 1936
- Updated 1 year ago
Book, El Hakim, obtained by Julian Hirshfeld while a prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1945. It is inscribed and stamped with the camp identification. After Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, Julian and his family were interned in Łódź Ghetto. Julian, a 35 year old Jewish textile engineer, was taken from the Ghetto around 1943. He then was interned at Birkenau, Auschwitz, Goleshau, and Buchenwald concentration camps. His first wife, Hela, and daughter, Fryda, 11, were deported from Łódź Ghetto and killed in Auschwitz. Julian's skills as a textile chemist were u...
Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8136
- English
- 1 Letter,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains letters and photographs regarding the extended family of Frances Hirshfeld, including letters from Lipka and Rachel Futerko; photographs of the Tatarko family in Czestochowa, Poland; a photograph of Dr. Julian J. Hirshfeld in Buchenwald, after liberation in 1945; and photogaphs of Julian and Frances Hirshfeld in Brussels, Belgium, after the war.
Envelope
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8146
- English
- 1 envelope,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains an envelope sent from Erwin Gasse to Frances Hirshfeld, green envelope addressed to "Mrs. J.J. Hirschfeld (sic.)/ 808-14th Ave S.E./ Decatur-Ala U.S.A." Gasse and Hirshfeld were both in the Zawiercie Ghetto together.
Erwin Gasse letter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8147
- English
- 1 Letter,
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains a letter sent from Erwin Gasse to Frances Hirshfeld, two-sided hand-written letter, in blue ink, on lined paper, dated March 1962.
Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8152
- English
- 1945
- Updated 1 year ago
Life magazine owned by Franka Rosenblum with an article on concentration camps. Franka and her family were in Zawiercie, Poland, when Germany invaded in September 1939. Franka was assigned as forced labor in a steel mill and was involved with the resistance. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a hospital, then in a Krupp ammunition factory. In January 1945, she was forced on death marches to Malkov, Ravensbrück, and Leipzig, where she escaped and hid. The area was soon liberate...
Bath towel acquired by Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8153
- English
- overall: Height: 40.500 inches (102.87 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Bath towel used by Franka Rosenblum, 25, that she stole from a Burgermeister's house in Sachsendorf, Germany, in April 1945 after her escape during a death march from Ravensbrueck concentration camp. She also took a blanket, 1993.27.33, a dress, and a blouse. Franka and her family lived in Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance movement. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a ho...
Wool blanket with a black, red, and cream plaid pattern acquired by a Polish Jewish woman after her escape during a forced march from Ravensbrück
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8154
- English
- overall: Height: 62.625 inches (159.068 cm) | Width: 53.625 inches (136.208 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Plaid wool blanket used by Franka Rosenblum, 25, that she stole from a Burgermeister's house in Sachsendorf, Germany, in April 1945 after her escape during a death march from Ravensbrueck concentration camp. She also took a towel, 1993.27.32, a dress, and a blouse. Franka and her family lived in Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance movement. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked i...
Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8155
- English
- 1943-1945
- overall: | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Commemorative pin made for Franka Rosenblum, 25, by a friend after the war in Germany, around May 1945. The pin is engraved with the names of the concentration and labor camps in which Franka was interned from 1943-1945. Franka and her family were from Zawiercie, Poland, which was invaded by Germany in September 1939. She was a forced laborer in a steel mill and involved with the resistance. On August 26, 1943, she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau where she was shaved, given rags to wear, and tattooed with the number 56362. She worked in a hospital, then in a Krupp ammunition factory. In ...
Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn8157
- English
- 1940-1942
- overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Small, sealed, cloth pouch containing a button from the coat of 10 year Fryda Hirshfeld who was deported from Łódź Ghetto and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. The button was returned to her father, Julian, after the war in late 1940s in Paris, by Mr. Mechtiger, a prewar family neighbor from Łódź, Poland. Julian sewed the button in the pouch and attached the string. Łódź was occupied by German troops on September 8, 1939. Fryda, her father, and her mother, Hela, were forced into the sealed Jewish ghetto in February 1940. Fryda was deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 and Hela met the sam...