Small metal dustpan and brush made in a labor camp as a birthday gift for Elizabeth Kroo
Gift of Elizabeth Kroo Teitelbaum
Id no. 61.95.1-2, Other, Hungarian
Elizabeth Kroo (born Munkacs) received this and other small birthday gifts made by her friends in a forced labor camp from materials stolen from the factory where they worked.
The small dustpan and brush are symbolic of Elizabeth?s work in cleaning barracks, and is humorously inscribed with the Hungarian phrase ?Keep Clean!?
Discover more about this artifact and other stories from the Museum?s collection in, ?To Life: 36 Stories of Memory and Hope? http://www.pickmanmuseumshop.com/tolif36storo.html.
The small dustpan and brush are symbolic of Elizabeth?s work in cleaning barracks, and is humorously inscribed with the Hungarian phrase ?Keep Clean!?
Discover more about this artifact and other stories from the Museum?s collection in, ?To Life: 36 Stories of Memory and Hope? http://www.pickmanmuseumshop.com/tolif36storo.html.
