Flora and Louis Pearl collection

Identifier: irn523617
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Flora and Louis Pearl.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a finger ring and documents relating to the experiences of Louis and Flora Stark Pearl and her parents in Hungary and in several concentration camps during the Holocaust.

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Flora and Louis Pearl papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518639
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains five promissory notes issued to Jeno and Elza Stark (Flora Stark Pearl's parents) after the Hungarians forbade Jews from owning businesses, and the Starks signed over their business to a tenant.
Engraved gold wedding ring acquired by an inmate while in Kaufering concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518640
- English
- overall: | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Gold wedding ring acquired by Louis Pearl in Kaufering concentration camp in Germany in 1945. Louis met his bride-to-be, Flora Stark, in the SS kitchen at the camp. They got to know one another through smuggled letters. In the spring of 1945, Louis bartered for 2 gold rings brought into the camp by inmates from the liquidated Łódź ghetto. He had a dentist inscribe the rings: Lajos 1944 Flora. Flora’s ring was confiscated when they attempted to smuggle it to her in the women’s camp. In April 1945, the Germans liquidated the camp and the women were sent on a death march. Flora was liberated i...

Flora and Louis Pearl collection

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Flora and Louis Pearl papers

Engraved gold wedding ring acquired by an inmate while in Kaufering concentration camp