us-005578-irn9727
type: RecordSet
archival history: The soap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Esther Moses.
physical characteristics and technical requirements: rectangular greyish white solid block
conditions of access: No restrictions on access
has beginning date: 1944-01-01
has end date: 1944-12-31
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn9727
record resource extent: overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
results or resulted from: 1
scope and content: Soap issued to Esther Moses, October-November 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Esther Zelmanovits Moses was interred in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was given this bar of soap when she was sent to work in Hamburg on November 26, 1944. She carried it with her for the remainder of the war. Her husband, Herbert Moses hid the bar of soap in his father-in-law's, Sam Zelman, store in Kansas.
title: Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau