Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

• 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 7 months 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...

• 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 7 months 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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514816
• English
• oversize box 1
• Updated 7 months 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn543441
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months 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.