Miriam Ziegler collection

Identifier: irn521984
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521984

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Miriam Ziegler.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of an aluminum box and photographs relating to the experiences of Rose and Miriam Ziegler and their family before the war in Ostrowiec, Poland, during the Holocaust in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and after liberation, to Miriam's experiences in Bindermichl displaced persons camp and the Strobl children's home in Austria.

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Handmade aluminum box incised with the name of a concentration camp inmate found by another inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515239
- English
- overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Small metal box found by Hozia Frydman in Birkenau concentration camp where she was imprisoned from 1944-1945. Scratched in the lid is the name Mendel Goldblit, possibly her uncle, who perished in the camp. When found, the box contained a human tooth with a silver crown. Hozia, 34, and her daughter Miriam, 4, were in Ostrowiec, Poland, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Soon the Germans set up a Jewish ghetto where they were forced to live. Hozia's husband, Herschel, was interned in a nearby labor camp and, by early 1942, Hozia and her sister Bella were sent there. Miriam had been p...
Ziegler family photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn522498
- English
- 1924-1947
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists of nine photographs depicting Miriam Ziegler's (née Frydman) family before World War II in Ostrowiec, Poland, and Miriam Ziegler in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp and the Strobel children's home near Salzburg, Austria, after liberation.

Miriam Ziegler collection

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Handmade aluminum box incised with the name of a concentration camp inmate found by another inmate

Ziegler family photograph collection