Reha Abraham Sokolow family collection

Identifier: irn522950
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522950

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 and 2014 by Reha Abraham Sokolow, daughter of Ruth and Walter Abraham.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a scarf, a clothes and a hair brush, documents, a letter and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth and Walter Abraham, their daughter, Reha, and other family members in Berlin, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust, including two years spent living in hiding.

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Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn114596
- English
- overall: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
- Updated 6 months ago
Silver clothes brush saved by Ruth Fromm Abraham, while living in hiding in Berlin from 1943 to 1945. It may originally have belonged to her mother Frieda Fromm who was deported on July 24, 1942. It is part of a set with a hair brush, 2005.600.4. Frieda and her husband Meyer moved from Allenstein to Berlin circa 1936 to be near their daughters. Since the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, life for Jews in Berlin was precarious. Ruth married Walter Abraham in 1939. Walter's parents and grandparents were deported in October 1940. Frieda and Meyer were deported in July 1942 to Theresiensta...
Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn114599
- English
- overall: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Updated 6 months ago
Silver hair brush used by Ruth Fromm Abraham, while living in hiding in Berlin from 1943 to 1945. It may originally have belonged to her mother Frieda Fromm who was deported on July 24, 1942. It is part of a set with a clothes brush, 2005.600.3. Frieda and her husband Meyer moved from Allenstein to Berlin circa 1936 to be near their daughters. Since the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, life for Jews in Berlin was precarious. Ruth married Walter Abraham in 1939. Walter's parents and grandparents were deported in October 1940. Frieda and Meyer were deported in July 1942 to Theresienstad...
Geometric floral patterned pink scarf worn by an infant while the family lived in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn42586
- English
- 1943-1945
- overall: Height: 21.750 inches (55.245 cm) | Width: 52.750 inches (133.985 cm)
- Updated 6 months ago
Floral kerchief used by Ruth Fromm Abraham as a cover for her infant daughter Reha when they lived in hiding in Berlin from 1943 to 1945. It originally belonged to Ruth's mother Frieda Fromm, who was deported on July 24, 1942. Frieda and her husband Meyer moved from Allenstein to Berlin circa 1936 to be near their daughters. Since the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, life for Jews in Berlin was precarious. Ruth married Walter Abraham in 1939. Walter's parents and grandparents were deported in October 1940. Frieda and Meyer were deported in July 1942 to Theresienstadt, and then on Sept...

Reha Abraham Sokolow family collection

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Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding

Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding

Geometric floral patterned pink scarf worn by an infant while the family lived in hiding