Miriam Patipa prayer book

Identifier
irn516755
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1998.68
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hungarian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516755

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Patipa. In memory of my parents, brother, sisters and their children, who were killed by the Nazis.

The prayer-book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Miriam Patipa in 1998.

Scope and Content

The prayer book is a thirteen-page Hungarian translation of a published Hebrew prayer book completed by Miriam Patipa while she was working as a slave laborer rebuilding an oil refinery in Gelsenkirchen concentration camp. The Hebrew prayer-book belonged to a fellow laborer at Gelsenkirchen.

Corporate Bodies

  • Gelsenkirchen (Concentration camp)

Subjects

  • Women concentration camp inmates--Germany--Gelsenkirchen.
  • Judaism--Prayer-books and devotions.

Genre

  • Prayer book.
  • Document
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