Eric Hauser collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn2505
• English
• overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Diameter: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Metal bowl found on the site of the former Janowska Street concentration camp in L’viv, Ukraine (formerly Lwów, Poland, and Lemberg, under German occupation) in 1944 by Isak (later Eric) Hauser. After Isak acquired his master’s degree in engineering and moved to western Poland, his parents, sister, and brother relocated to the city of Lwów. In September 1939, both Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As German forces approached the oil fields in western Poland where Isak worked, he fled to the city of Lwów, which had been renamed L'vov and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet S...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn2506
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Diameter: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Metal bowl found on the site of the former Janowska Street concentration camp in L’viv, Ukraine (formerly Lwów, Poland, and Lemberg, under German occupation) in 1944 by Isak (later Eric) Hauser. After Isak acquired his master’s degree in engineering and moved to western Poland, his parents, sister, and brother relocated to the city of Lwów. In September 1939, both Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As German forces approached the oil fields in western Poland where Isak worked, he fled to the city of Lwów, which had been renamed L’vov and incorporated into the Ukrainian Soviet S...