Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

Identifier: irn78343
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn78343

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Regina and Samuel Spiegel. Accretions may have been added to this collection.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a handcrafted metal box and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Regina and Sam Spiegel after the Holocaust in Germany where they lived as displaced persons after their liberation from concentration camps. Also incldues photograph albums documenting the couple's postwar life. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11858
- English
- 1946
- overall: Height: 19.250 inches (48.895 cm) | Width: 29.250 inches (74.295 cm) | Depth: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Silver aluminum suitcase used by Regina and Shmuel Spiegel when they emigrated in October 1947 from Germany to the United States. In April 1941, Regina Gutman, 15, escaped the Radom ghetto in German occupied Poland to join her sister Rozia in Pionki. She worked in a munitions factory, where she met Shmuel, 20. He had left Kozienice ghetto in September 1942 to work in Pionki labor camp. In fall 1944, the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They promised to meet in Kozienice if they survived the war. Men and women were separated upon arrival. Regina was transfer...
Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11859
- English
- a: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Small gold painted metal box made by 22 year old Shmuel Spiegel to carry soap when he was a prisoner at Gleiwitz I slave labor camp from September1944 - January 1945. He engraved it with RG and SS, for Regina Gutman and Shmuel Spiegel, with a heart pierced by an arrow. Shmuel and Regina met in Pionki labor camp circa 1942. They were separated when the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau in fall 1944 and had promised to meet after the war. In April 1941, Regina, 15, escaped the Radom ghetto in German occupied Poland for Pionki. She worked in a munitions factory, where she met Shmu...
Sam and Regina Spiegel photograph albums
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514816
- English
- oversize box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists of two photograph albums of Sam and Regina Spiegel, both of whom were survivors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps. One albums depicts the family from the 1940s-1960s. The other album depicts Sam and Regina's wedding in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in 1946.
Regina and Samuel Spiegel papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn543441
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains documents related to the postwar experiences of Sam Spiegel and Regina Gutman in Wolfratshausen, Germany, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a marriage certificate, an identification card issued to Samuel Spiegel enabling him to ride the Stuttgart tram, and an affidavit statement of support issued by Samuel Kreps supporting their immigration efforts.

Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

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Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees

Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate

Sam and Regina Spiegel photograph albums

Regina and Samuel Spiegel papers