Gisela E. Zamora collection

Identifier: irn515276
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn515276

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Gisela Eckstein Zamora, the wife of Joseph Zamora. Other accretions were donated later.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Gisela Eckstein as an inmate of the Theresienstadt ghetto and Maerzdorf slave labor camp and of Joseph Zamoire (Zamora) as an inmate of Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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A memoir
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn500754
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Testimony, various versions, typescript, 5 pages each, plus photocopied passport.
Josep Zamojre papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn510529
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Consists of passports issued by the German government to Joseph Zamora, the donor's husband, and to his father that allowed for the two men to travel to Italy where they hoped to find safety, dated 14 Feb.1940; and a group of documents, including ID cards from Italy, belonging to the donor's husband. Joseph Zamora was captured in Italy and deported to Auschwitz; he was on the same transport as Pri.
Yellow cloth strip sewn to a slave laborer's uniform to identify her as a Jew
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515291
- English
- overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Yellow strip of cloth from the uniform worn by 16 year old Gisela Zamora when she was a slave laborer at Maerzdorf concentration camp from October 1944 to May 1945. The strip was sewn to the back of her uniform to identify her as a Jew. It may have had a red triangle painted on it. Gisela, her parents, Berthold and Bertha, and her brother Norbert, age 12, were deported from Battenberg, Germany, to Ghetto Theresienstadt in September 1942. The family was transported in August 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp where Gisela was separated from them and sent to Birkenau. In October, she was sh...
Gisela Zamora papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522043
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The papers consist of a copy of a document issued to Guiseppe (Joseph) Zamoire, husband of Gisela Zamora, stating that he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and a pass issued to Gisela Eckstein [donor] when she was returning from a concentration camp giving her permission to pass through the town of Zgorzelice (Görlitz), Germany, and cross the bridge in Friedberg, Germany, along with two men.
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, acquired by a former inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522044
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Theresienstadt scrip for 10 kronen given to Gisela Eckstein, a former inmate of the camp by another former inmate. Currency was confiscated upon entry and scrip was distributed per a 5-tier rating based on status or employment or received for conscript labor while in camp. Gisela, age 14, her parents, Berthold and Bertha, and her brother Norbert, age 12, were deported from Battenberg, Germany, to Ghetto Theresienstadt in September 1942. The family was transported in August 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp where Gisela was separated from them and sent to Birkenau concentration camp. In O...

Gisela E. Zamora collection

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A memoir

Josep Zamojre papers

Yellow cloth strip sewn to a slave laborer's uniform to identify her as a Jew

Gisela Zamora papers

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, acquired by a former inmate