Shoe brush
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45462
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Shoe brush : stained : beige, red-brown, black ; Ht: 1,75 in. x W: 8 in.
- Date
- 1944
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Shoe brush : stained : beige, red-brown, black ; Ht: 1,75 in. x W: 8 in.
- Other Title Information
- Clothing Accessory
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- Shoe brush made of red-brown stained wood with rounded edges and concave back. Black bristles are bordered by beige bristles. A hidden compartment is revealed by sliding the back away from the part that holds the bristles. Narrative: Chava Favor was born on March 22, 1920 to Albert Fleischer and Juliana Beck. She was sent to Szeged ghetto (Hungary) in early 1944, where she received this brush from a Hungarian carpenter. In the summer of 1944, she used the brush to smuggle a small diamond brooch and money (the equivalent of $500) onto a train to a sub-camp of Mauthausen. She was eventually liberated from Strasshoff concentration camp (Austria) by the Soviet Army. After living in Prague (Czechoslovakia), Chava used the brush to smuggle $3,000 into Israel in 1949. She immigrated to Canada in 1952.
- Accession No.
- 2011X.124.01
- Name Access
- Favor, Chava
- Places
- Szeged, Hungary, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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