us-005578-irn593625-irn593631
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history: The dental bridge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Joyce Cordi, the daughter of Leopold and Herta Stoer.
date: 1939 February
history: Herta Schwarzbart (later Stoer, 1908-2007) was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, to Arthur (1875-1914) and Pauline Flesch (1873-1937) Schwarzbart. Arthur was born in Terezín, Austria-Hungary, to Alexander and Rosala Schwarzbart. Arthur had five siblings. Arthur’s mother died in the late 1890s, and his father later married Josephine, who had two sons. Pauline was born in Vienna, to Abraham and Johanna Ernst Flesch. Pauline had an older sister, Hermine or Minna (later Tischler, 1869-1943), and a younger brother, Samuel or Sammy. Pauline’s mother died in 1912, and her father later remarried. He had a son before dying in 1917. In 1895, 20-year-old Arthur was corresponding with Pauline while serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in Moravia. In 1900, Arthur and Pauline married in Vienna. Herta’s aunt Minna married, had two children, and ran a candy store. Herta’s Uncle Sammy was wounded during World War I, and died of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from home, sewing for a girdle factory. Herta had three other siblings: Friedrich (Fritz, 1902-1945), Gisela (Ella, 1904-1942), and Hansi (1913-?). Pauline taught Arthur how to sew and he began designing fancy petticoats. He would take orders from wholesalers, and then both he and Pauline would fill the orders at home. Their company grew to employ 125 additional seamstresses. Herta’s family lived very comfortably, with a hired maid and vacations at a resort in the Alps. World War I began in August 1914, and as a member of the peacetime army, Arthur was called up immediately. In November, Arthur was shot while fighting on the Russian front. He developed a tetanus infection and died. The war prevented Pauline from buying material for the business, and she was forced to close. With inadequate resources at home, 6-year-old Herta, Ella, Hansi, and Fritz were placed in an orphanage in early 1915. The children attended school a…
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
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scope and content: Partial gold dental bridge with false tooth and crown likely brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. The bridge likely belonged to her mother, Pauline Schwarzbart (née Flesch). Herta lived in Vienna with her mother and father, Arthur Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Hilda, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. Arthur died from tetanus in November 1914 during his military service in World War I. As a result, Pauline had to close the lingerie business they ran together before the war. Her daughter, Hilda began making and selling children’s clothing out of a storefront below their apartment. Pauline’s younger children were sent to an orphanage. Herta was transferred to a boarding school for Jewish orphan girls, where she later returned as a teacher. In 1932, Hansi married and moved to Palestine. In early 1936, Herta began dating Leopold (Leo) Stoer. In June 1937, Pauline passed away. On March 13, 1938, Austria was annexed into Germany, and Herta married Leo later that month. Leo immigrated to the US in September 1938, followed by Herta in February 1939. In September, the couple moved to California, where they began running a chicken farm to raise money to help their families immigrate. As World War II progressed, Herta and Leo lost contact with most family members. Herta later learned that her family members had been deported to concentration camps and killed by 1943, except for her sister-in-law and nephew, who survived in hiding in Belgium. Leo’s entire family had been deported to concentration camps and killed in 1942.
physical characterisitics and technical requirements: A gold, 2-unit dental bridge with a partial false tooth [pontic] and a hollow half-crown for support. The false tooth is likely meant to repair just the missing chewing surface of a tooth, rather than replace a full tooth. The false tooth is thin with a contoured surface for chewing, and a smooth underside that would fit along the cut down surface of the tooth it was repairing. The half-crown has a contoured surface, thin and narrow sides, and the hollow interior fits over the top of a tooth beside the repaired tooth in order support it. The surfaces of the crown and false tooth are both worn from use. The crown has ragged edges along one side, where half of it has broken away and is now missing. There are traces of white residue on the underside of the false tooth, possibly from adhesive used to affix it to the partial tooth beneath. The edge of the false tooth is straight and flat, as though an additional crown or support was once attached and has since been cut or snipped-off.
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title: Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
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