Flora and Louis Pearl collection

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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...