Embroidered pink handkerchief
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)
Archival History
The handkerchief was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Glenn Meyers and Debbie Smith, the children of Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Glenn Meyers and Debbie Smith
Scope and Content
Pink handkerchief embroidered with her name owned by Ruth Spivack who during the war lived in Montmorency OSE home in France and then was sent on a September 1941 USCOM transport to the United States, where she lived with the Spivack family in Cleveland.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Pink handkerchief embroidered with the name Ruth Spivack.
name Ruth Spivack embroidered on one corner
Genre
- Object
- Dress Accessories