- Object Name:
- Pendant
- Artist/Maker:
- Manfred Ehrlich
- Bio:
- Austrian, 1927-1944
- Place Made:
- Theresienstadt (Terezín), Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic)
- Date:
- 1943 (date of inscription)
- Medium:
- Brass: engraved
- Dimensions:
- 1 3/8 × 1 5/16 in. (3.5 × 3.3 cm)
- Credit Line:
- Gift of the Family of M. Ehrlich
- Accession Number:
- 2008-4
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Manfred (Fredi) Ehrlich, a teenage prisoner at Theresienstadt, gave this pendant as a gift to his mother. The pendant is inscribed “Fredi” on one side and “Muttertag Terezín 9.V.1943” (Mother’s Day, May 9, 1943) on the other. Ehrlich was deported from Vienna to Theresienstadt on October 2, 1942, and on September 28, 1944, was sent to Auschwitz, where he perished, age seventeen. His mother survived.
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