6 pressed pattern drinking glasses recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman 2013.355.2_f
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Six decorative molded glasses possibly received by Käthe Steiner upon her marriage to Fritz Stecklmacher on March 25, 1928, in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia. Käthe gave the glasses to non-Jewish neighbors for safekeeping before her July 1942 deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp. She recovered them when she returned to Prostejov in May 1945. Käthe, Fritz, their two daughters, Maud, age 13, and Karmela, age 8, and her parents Max and Steffi Steiner were sent to Theresienstadt on July 2, 1942. Max died on September 17. Fritz committed suicide in Terezin on May 30, 1943. Käthe was assigned to the glimmer factory, separating pieces of the mineral mica, which was used for electrical insulation. Mica was essential to the German war effort, so she and her immediate family were protected temporarily from deportation to camps further east. Steffi was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered in October 1944. Theresienstadt was liberated by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945. Käthe, Maud, and Karmela returned to Prostejov. They immigrated to Israel in March 1949.
Six decorative molded glasses possibly received by Käthe Steiner upon her marriage to Fritz Stecklmacher on March 25, 1928, in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia. Käthe gave the glasses to non-Jewish neighbors for safekeeping before her July 1942 deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp. She recovered them when she returned to Prostejov in May 1945. Käthe, Fritz, their two daughters, Maud, age 13, and Karmela, age 8, and her parents Max and Steffi Steiner were sent to Theresienstadt on July 2, 1942. Max died on September 17. Fritz committed suicide in Terezin on May 30, 1943. Käthe was assigned to the glimmer factory, separating pieces of the mineral mica, which was used for electrical insulation. Mica was essential to the German war effort, so she and her immediate family were protected temporarily from deportation to camps further east. Steffi was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered in October 1944. Theresienstadt was liberated by Soviet troops on May 8, 1945. Käthe, Maud, and Karmela returned to Prostejov. They immigrated to Israel in March 1949.
- Title: 6 pressed pattern drinking glasses recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman 2013.355.2_f
- Provenance: The tumblers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Maud Michal Beer, the daughter of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher., The tumblers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Maud Michal Beer, the daughter of Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher.
- Subject Keywords: Concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish families--Czech Republic--Prostejov--Biography. Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Holocaust survivors--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Women concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia--Biography., Concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Czechoslovakia--Personal narratives, Jewish. Jewish families--Czech Republic--Prostejov--Biography. Jews--Persecutions--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Holocaust survivors--Czechoslovakia--Biography. Women concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia--Biography.
- Type: Household Utensils, Household Utensils
- Rights: Permanent Collection, Permanent Collection
- External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Medium: a. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. b. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above sideways pointing ovals. c. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. d. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. e. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. f. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways., a. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. b. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above sideways pointing ovals. c. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. d. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. e. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways. f. Clear molded drinking glass with a slightly flared lip, an inward curving, circular, thick, flat base, and a rim with a pressed pattern of 2 bands above pointed ovals that alternate between pointing upwards or sideways.
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