us-005578-irn522416-irn523815
type: RecordSet
archival history: The needle packet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Alice Fink, the wife of John Fink.
biographical history: Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World War I veteran from Schlabendorf, Germany. Ella was born on April 9, 1893, in Berlin. Alice's brother Heinz Alfred was born on June 9, 1923. The family considered themselves Germans who were Jewish. They celebrated high holidays, irregularly attended synagogue, and did not keep a kosher house. The children went to public schools. Alice attended Hebrew school three times per week and also belonged to a German Jewish youth group that was more social than religious. In 1932, Georg became formally affiliated with the Jewish Community, reporting official Jewish deaths to the religious and civil authorities. In 1932, Georg became formally affiliated with the Jewish Community, reporting official Jewish deaths to the religious and civil authorities. Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor on January 30, 1933, led to increasingly severe restrictions on Jews. The 1935 Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the total separation of Aryans and non-Aryans. Due to the high number of Jewish students in her school, Alice did not immediately feel the increasing anti-Semitism. However, in response to the encroaching restrictions, her father removed her from school in 1935. She celebrated her Bat Mitzvah in 1936. Her only experience of persecution was that by 1937, she was not allowed to attend German cultural events. In 1937, Alice enrolled in a vocational school and trained as an infant nurse in a children’s home. She completed her training in 1938, and with the assistance of a cousin living in England, was accepted into the nursing program at Miller General Hospital, a private hospital in Southeast London. In the months prior to her departure, she learned English and worked for a family taking care of their infant son. On November 11, 1938, Alice left Germany from Bremerhaven on a refugee ship and arrived in London on November 14. …
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Packet is rectangular and slim in form, made of a folded heavy fiberous paper; blue text"Injekta 1 Dutzend Injektions Kanuelen Material: (typed) Super Err Eff Nr. (typed) 18 Montur (typed) Rekor", text"Injekt" is inside a triangle that forms an insignia; packet contains twelve metal injektion needles.
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
date: 1949 August 26
has beginning date: 1938-01-01
has end date: 1949-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn523815
is or was included in: us-005578-irn522416
record resource extent: overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.380 inches (0.965 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Needle packet used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp in 1948. Hans had been a prisoner of Monowitz, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenberg, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. His parents were murdered in Auschwitz and his sister survived in hiding.
title: Needle packet used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker