Pre-war safety razor belonging to Abraham Kirschbraun. This was the only memento of him left to Abraham’s brother Jakub after the Holocaust. Abraham had given it to Jakub as the latter was escaping from occupied Warsaw in 1939. Jakub had it with him in Siberia, and after the war as an émigré in Paris and Israel.
metal, 6×10×5.5; MHŻP–B112; Donated by Jakub Kirschbraun
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