Herta Griffel Baitch collection

Identifier: irn531003
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn531003

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Herta Griffel Baitch.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of children’s clothing, a suitcase, a doll, a siddur, a pair of earrings, correspondence, documents, a notebook, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Herta Griffel Baitch and her parents in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and of Herta in the United States following her immigration in November 1940.

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Displaying items 1 to 12 of 12

Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539499
- English
- overall: Height: 23.875 inches (60.643 cm) | Width: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Girls dress handmade from checkered fabric with decorative heart shaped elements on the front sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a tr...
Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539500
- English
- overall: Height: 32.750 inches (83.185 cm) | Width: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handmade white nightgown with embroidered flowers sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighb...
Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539502
- English
- overall: Height: 31.875 inches (80.963 cm) | Width: 30.125 inches (76.518 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handmade white nightgown with an embroidered geometric design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men i...
Embroidered blouse made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539506
- English
- overall: Height: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handmade white blouse with a kaleidoscopic embroidered design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria, before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men ...
Embroidered apron made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539508
- English
- overall: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 26.625 inches (67.628 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handmade white embroidered apron with a floral design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the ne...
Tefilot Yiśraʼel Siddur Prayers of the Israelites Siddur given as a gift to a young Austrian Jewish refugee girl before her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539509
- English
- 1867
- a: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) b: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) c: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Jewish Siddur given to Herta Griffel by her teacher Gertrud Winter in 1940 before Herta’s emigration from Austria. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9 -10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor camp, and then ...
Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn552661
- English
- overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 29.750 inches (75.565 cm) | Depth: 20.875 inches (53.023 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Large rectangular suitcase used by Herta Griffel when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor camp, and t...
Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn552662
- English
- overall: Height: 22.375 inches (56.833 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Girls handmade white dress with a colorful embroidered design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men i...
Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn552671
- English
- overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Plastic doll wearing a handmade burgundy dress brought with Herta Griffel from Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1940. The dress and the undergarment on the doll were handmade by Herta's mother. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every mor...
Reunion of Herta Baitch and Stella Bruckenstein Bengel
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn552684
- English
- 2008
- 1 DVD,
- Updated 1 year ago
Herta Griffel Baitch papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn711957
- English
- 1938-2019
- folders 6
- Updated 1 year ago
The Herta Griffel Baitch papers include Herta Griffel’s German passport and Viennese birth certificate, two letters from her mother to Herta’s social worker (Rose Beser), a notebook containing handwritten Yiddish songs and proverbs Herta’s mother copied for her in German, and a photograph of Herta and her mother before the Holocaust. Later photographs depict Herta with her cousin Adela Dula in London in 1977 and visiting the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in 2008. The papers also include letters from Adela to Herta and her first foster parents (Clara and Joseph Baer), notes describing the fam...
Pair of earrings entrusted to a young Austrian Jewish refugee after her emigration
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn734212
- English
- overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
A pair of brass earrings later entrusted to Herta Griffel (b. 1933) by her mother years after her emigration from Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men i...