Sven Sonnenberg collection

Identifier: irn510333
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn510333

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Sven Sonnenberg.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of one armband with a blue Star of David worn in the Drzewica ghetto, one yellow badge worn in the Płock ghetto, one coin from the Łódź ghetto, and two photographs.

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Sven Sonnenberg collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn510334
- English
- 1918-1964
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of fourteen vintage photographs of the donor and his family before the war in Jablonowo, Poland; after the war in Otwock, Poland and in the Helenowek, Poland, orphanage; and a photographic portrait, circa 1964, of Elisabeth Sonnenberg, the donor's wife.
White armband with a blue embroidered Star of David worn in the Drzewica ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn510337
- English
- 1941-1942
- Updated 1 year ago
Sven Sonnenberg was forced to wear this armband in the ghetto in Drzewica, Poland. Sven Sonnenberg was born in Grudziadz, Poland, on 17 Oct. 1931 to a Jewish father, Martin Sonnenberg, and a non-Jewish, German mother, Louise Theophil. In Nov. 1939, Sven, his parents, and his younger sister, Sylvia, were deported from Jablonowo, Poland, to the Płock ghetto. When the Płock ghetto was liquidated in 1941, the family was transferred to the Drzewica ghetto. During the liquidation of the Drzewica ghetto in 1942, Louise, Sven, and Sylvia escaped to a nearby forest where Martin was supposed to join ...
Sven Sonnenberg papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn512291
- English
- 1948-1964
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
One photograph of Elisabeth Sonnenberg donor's wife dated October 8, 1964, in Warsaw, Poland, and one photograph of Sven and Sylvia Sonnenberg at an orphanage in Helenówek, Poland, circa 1948.
Badge
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn512292
- English
- 1939-1941
- Updated 1 year ago
Sven Sonnenberg donor wore the badge on his outer clothing, front and back, in the ghetto in Płock, Poland
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn512293
- English
- 1943
- overall: | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

Sven Sonnenberg collection

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Sven Sonnenberg collection

White armband with a blue embroidered Star of David worn in the Drzewica ghetto

Sven Sonnenberg papers

Badge

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin