Loading
Leather wallet with 6 pockets used by a German Jewish refugee to hold wartime documents
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Wallet used by Erna Landau to carry her documents during and after the war. Due to the escalating persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, Erna's parents, Arthur and Bertha, decided to send Erna and her younger sister Ruth from Rhede to Great Britain in June 1938. The war ended in May 1945. Arthur and Bertha had been deported from Germany to Riga, Latvia, where they were murdered. In June1947, Erna and Ruth emigrated to the United States.
Show lessRead more
Details
- Title: Leather wallet with 6 pockets used by a German Jewish refugee to hold wartime documents
- Location: Germany--Emigration and immigration--Biography. Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Biography.
- Provenance: The wallet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Erna Landau Meyer, the wife of Herman Meyer.
- Subject Keywords: Jewish refugees--Great Britain--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Great Britain--Personal narratives, Jewish.
- Type: Dress Accessories
- Rights: Permanent Collection
- External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Medium: Rectangular, large, brown leather bi-fold wallet with 2 interior left side pockets and 4 interior right side pockets; 2 are small adjacent slot pockets on the front of the large right pocket. The fullsize pockets have a cloth divider with a leather top. The leather is finished on the exterior side only. A strip of finished leather has been adhered to the interior between the right and left sides so that unfinished leather is not visible when the wallet is open. There is a flap with a leather loop tab for closing the front left pocket; one loop is detached.
Get the app
Explore museums and play with Art Transfer, Pocket Galleries, Art Selfie, and more
