The prayer book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Musum in 1992 by Ursula Klau, the daughter of Resa Klau.
Notes inside the prayerbook are written in both pen and pencil in German, Dutch and English; title page is missing. Inside of the front page of the prayerbook:"Betty Rothschild; Frankfurt am Runkarff --?---- Strasse 47/II, dann nach Amsterdam; Waalstr. 41 II B.N. Loopuit, am 5 Maez 1943 nach Westerbork in Ziekenhuis Baracke 85, Durch Rab. Frank Weisenhaus [orphanage]; Westerbork Erhalten: Resa Klau-Altheimer ehemalls Frankfurt a main Gartnerweg 5p; spater Amsterdam Minervalaan 56; 1 III 43 Westerbork; 1 II 44 M Bergen Belsen Celle; Gestorben am Mai 7 1945 Tochter Ursula Klau; Geb. Jan. 25 1932" Inside of the back page:"Fuer meinen sohn Dr. Jakob Rothschild; Meag diel - Ramatain Palestine; Ursula Klau Etania Sanatorium Davos Dec. 1945 (via Trobitz, Kassel, Maastricht, a dam [Amsterdam], Winterthur); Nov. 1945 150 West 95th Street N.Y.C. 25 (via Zurich, Basel, Lugano, Paris, Ireland, N. Foundland); Jan. 48 51 West 86th Str. N.Y.C. 24; Summer 1947 - Camp Lebanon - Sommerville, NY; Sept. 1950 225 East 63 Street N.Y.C. 21; Summer 1948 - Belmar, N.J.; Summer 1949 - Long Beach, L.I.; Summer 1950 - 175 W. 93 Str. N.Y.C., 25; September 1950 - 225 East 63 Str. N.Y.C.; March 1953 - 317 East 74 Str. N.Y.C" INV-1/98
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overall: Height: 7.760 inches (19.71 cm) | Width: 5.240 inches (13.31 cm) | Depth: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm)
The prayer book was originally owned by Betty Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was received by Resa Klau at an orphanage in Westerbork. It was obtained by Ursula Klau after her mother's death in May 1945 at Bergen-Belsen and was kept by her through various DP camps and through arrival to United States at New York in 1953.
Prayerbook kept by a Jewish woman in concentration camps