Shoe brush

item1944

Where

Not on the map yet.

Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: 1944 (indexed as 1944)
Level: item
Extent: Shoe brush : stained : beige, red-brown, black ; Ht: 1,75 in. x W: 8 in.
Scope & content: 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.
Location: No place found in this description yet.
Locate this photo
Genre / form: object
Format: Object / artifact
In the picture: Interior View Wood FrameTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Text in the image: cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Harvested: 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

Original metadata as harvested (andornot)