The lace was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Elizabeth Margosches the grandaughter of Helene Reik.
Lace circle with scalloped edges and attached thread ball. It is unfinished work.
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Unfinished lace circle and thread ball that belonged to Helene Reik while she was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. Helene died in 1943 from an infection as a result of several surgeries performed on her in the camp.
Unfinished lace circle with scalloped edges owned by a prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp
overall: | Depth: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm)