Vera Hauser collection

Identifier: irn544795
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn544795

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Vera Hauser.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a toothbrush cup, newspaper clippings, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Vera Hauser in Sweden after World War II.

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Vera Hauser papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551452
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Documents including: "Lakarkort", in Swedish; 2 "Field Medical Cards"; Identity card issued by the Hungarian Consulate in Sweden in 1946; letter regarding repatriation; Newspaper clippings; family photographs
Stainless steel toothbrush rinse cup given to a Holocaust survivor in Sweden
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn551453
- English
- 1945-1946
- overall: Height: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Stainless steel, toothbrush rinse cup given to Vera Hauser postwar while recovering in a Swedish hospital. Vera was a Hungarian Jewish woman from Budapest. In March 1944, Germany occupied Hungary and in November Vera was rounded up with 70,000 other Jews in Budapest and forced to march to Austria. She survived a mass shooting of her fellow prisoners and was taken by train to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Lower Saxony, Germany. While there she contracted typhoid fever. Bergen-Belsen was liberated by the British army on April 15, 1945. Vera was sent to a hospital in Sigtuna, Sweden to r...

Vera Hauser collection

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Vera Hauser papers

Stainless steel toothbrush rinse cup given to a Holocaust survivor in Sweden