Ann West collection

Identifier: irn521765
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521765

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Ann West in 1988, 1989, and 1992.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of badges, an armband, a cloth, scrip, a pamphlet, and personal papers related to Ann West's work for a German military laundry near Berlin, her deportation to Auschwitz and liberation, and her mother’s survival in Theresienstadt and status as a victim of fascism.

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1. United States (7)
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Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514801
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 0.380 inches (0.965 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514802
- English
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.870 inches (7.29 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Armband worn in Ravensbruck concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514803
- English
- 1944
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 7.380 inches (18.745 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
The armband is made of red cloth and inscribed with the letters "L.P." (Lagerpolizei).
Cloth square cut from a blue and gray striped concentration camp inmate uniform
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514804
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
The blue and gray-striped cloth was cut from an inmate's uniform at Auschwitz concentration camp
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn521769
- English
- 1945
- Updated 1 year ago
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522361
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Scrip, valued at 10 (zehn) kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.
Ann West papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn95270
- English
- 1943-1946
- folders 4
- Updated 1 year ago
The Ann West papers consist of Red Cross correspondence Ann sent to her sister in the United States just before her deportation to Auschwitz and following her liberation, an identification card documenting her mother’s status as a victim of fascism, a photograph of six girls working at a German military laundry, lyrics to concentration camp songs, and a copy of a poem by Johannes R. Becher. The Red Cross correspondence includes Ann’s last communication to her sister Emmy Pomper from the Hachshara at Neuendorf bei Fürstenwalde before her deportation to Auschwitz and her effort to contact Emm...

Ann West collection

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Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude

Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude

Armband worn in Ravensbruck concentration camp

Cloth square cut from a blue and gray striped concentration camp inmate uniform

Book

Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

Ann West papers