Friedrich Haas collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn710370
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Identification card issued to Friedrich Haas (Fredi Haas) by the Guvernamàntul Transnistriei Directia Industriei Turnatoria din Moghilev, dated September 10, 1943 (Legitimatie No. 732). Friedrich was living in Cernauti, (now, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) with his parents, Bernard and Lotte, and his three brothers, Norbert, Ignatz, and Adolph when it was ceded by Romania to the Soviet Union in 1940. In June 1941, Romanian and German forces occupied the city as part of the larger invasion of the Soviet Union. Norbert fled the city with the Soviet forces. Friedrich and his family were forced to abando...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn710375
• English
• 1941-1944
• overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Engraved lighter made by Friedrich Haas while he was a forced laborer in the Jagendorf Foundry in Moghilev (now Mohyliv-Podil’s’kyi Ukraine), an area located in Romanian-controlled Transnistria, from 1941 to 1944. The workers made lighters for Romanian and German officials, but also a few for themselves. Friedrich melted down one of his mother’s silver spoons to create the plating for his lighter case. Friedrich was living in Cernauti, (now, Chernivtsi, Ukraine) with his parents, Bernard and Lotte, and his three brothers, Norbert, Ignatz, and Adolph when it was ceded by Romania to the Sovie...