Ratza Solomonskaya collection

Identifier: irn555928
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Singer sewing machine with table and sewing scissors used by Ratza Solomonskaya in Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), before and during the Holocaust.

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Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn562283
- English
- 1927
- a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Depth: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) b: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) c: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 35.875 inches (91.123 cm) | Depth: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm) d: Height: 26.625 inches (67.628 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Depth: 18.875 inches (47.943 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Singer sewing machine mounted on a wooden table with wrought iron legs that Ratza (Reyza) Solomonskaya used to earn her livelihood as a seamstress in the small town of Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), during the Holocaust. She lived with her husband, a shoemaker named Mark Solomonski, and their teenage daughters, Khayka and Ita. During World War II, their town was in Bessarabia, a historically contested region, which had been part of Romania following World War I until it was ceded to the Soviet Union in June 1940. In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania ...
Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn562288
- English
- overall: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Singer sewing scissors that Ratza (Reyza) Solomonskaya used to earn her livelihood as a seamstress in the small town of Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), during the Holocaust. She lived with her husband, a shoemaker named Mark Solomonski, and their teenage daughters, Khayka and Ita. During World War II, their town was in Bessarabia, a historically contested region, which had been part of Romania following World War I until it was ceded to the Soviet Union in June 1940. In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania recaptured the region. On July 13, Romanian sold...

Ratza Solomonskaya collection

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Singer Model 15 sewing machine and table used by Jewish Romanian woman who was massacred

Singer sewing scissors used by Jewish Romanian woman who was killed during a massacre