Percy Brand collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn45017
• English
• 1940-1949
• a: Height: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 28.750 inches (73.025 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 32.000 inches (81.28 cm) | Depth: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) d: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) e: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) f: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) g: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) h: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) i: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) j: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Violin, case, and parts kept by Perec Brandt during his imprisonment in several concentration camps from 1943-1945. A family friend gave the violin to Perec as a Bar Mitzvah present in 1921. Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when the Soviets annexed Latvia. In June 1941, Latvia was under German occupation and Perec’s wife, daughter, and son were murdered by the SS Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing unit]. Perec was forced into the Riga ghetto, and later transferred to Riga-Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Buchenwald, he was or...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn45083
• English
• overall: Height: 44.625 inches (113.348 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Towel used by 35 year old Perec Brandt, embroidered with his prisoner number, 82321/23, for Buchenwald concentration camp where he was imprisoned from 1943-1945. Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when the Soviets annexed Latvia. In June 1941, Latvia was under German occupation and Perec’s wife, daughter, and son were murdered by the SS Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing unit]. Perec was forced into the Riga ghetto, and later transferred to Riga-Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Buchenwald, he was ordered to play his violin for ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562011
• English
• 1945-1985
• boxes oversize boxes oversize folder book enclosures 2 2 1 6
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection documents the life and musical career of Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust. The material primarily relates to his post-war life in the Kibbutz Buchenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps, as well as his musical career in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Included are biographical materials, sheet music, programs, photographs, and audio recordings. The biographical material includes an address book, clippings, a small amount of correspondence, his ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562311
• English
• overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Tinted, offset lithographic, metal printing plate with a photograph of Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) holding his violin (2006.133.2a-j), the same one used while a concentration camp inmate in Latvia and Germany from 1941 to 1945 and a displaced person in Germany from 1945 to 1949. Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when the Soviets annexed Latvia. In June 1941, Latvia was under German occupation and Perec’s wife, daughter, and son were murdered by the SS Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing unit]. Perec was forced into the Riga ghetto, and later transfer...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562531
• English
• overall: Height: 36.125 inches (91.758 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Advertising poster for a literary music concert saved by Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) while he was living in and performing at a displaced persons camp in Germany from 1945 to 1949. The poster features the photographs of the four Yiddish quartet members, including Perec holding his violin, and lists the works selected for the concert program. Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when the Soviets annexed Latvia. In June 1941, Latvia was under German occupation and Perec’s wife, daughter, and son were murdered by the SS Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing ...