Ann West collection

• 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 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514802
• English
• overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.870 inches (7.29 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514803
• English
• 1944
• overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 7.380 inches (18.745 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

The armband is made of red cloth and inscribed with the letters "L.P." (Lagerpolizei).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514804
• English
• 1943
• overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

The blue and gray-striped cloth was cut from an inmate's uniform at Auschwitz concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521769
• English
• 1945
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522361
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
• Updated 7 months 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn95270
• English
• 1943-1946
• folders 4
• Updated 7 months 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...