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    Title

  • Handbag and contents owned by Grete Lebach

  • Physical Description

    Leather, plastic, fabric and metal ; 24 cm x 23 cm (handbag)

  • Summary

    2001.67a: Tan leather handbag.

    Small items found stored in handbag:

    2001.67b: mirror (6 cm x 8 cm)

    2001.67c: smaller mirror: (4.5 cm x 6.5 cm) with backing reading "Viktor Guggenheim, Werbegeschenke-Reklameartikel Plakate, Nurnberg, Kaiserstr. 12, Ruf: 22511"

    2001.67d: square piece of white fabric with 8 safety pins attached to it

    2001.67e: cover to an address book

    2001.67f: lipstick in a case

    2001.67g: lip gloss on a circular case

    2001.67h: nib of a fountain pen

    2001.67i-j: two silver pieces with three holes reading "Ges Gesch, Prichisch, Hamburg"

  • Part Of

    Lebach Wilheimer Family Collection, AR 25050, 25050

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Biographical/Historical Information

Handbag had been owend by Grete Lebach, née Weilheimer. Grete had likely carried this when she immigrated to the United States in 1939. Paper items from the handbag seem to have been separated and kept with the Lebach Wilheimer Family Collection, AR 25050, Box: 1, Folder: 2. These paper items are digitized.

Grete Lebach was born Grete Weilheimer on February 28, 1910 to Martin Weilheimer (1877-1961) and his wife Ida. She was confirmed into the Jewish religious community of Nurnberg in 1924. In 1939, she immigrated via Cuba to the United States, where she met her husband Erich Lebach (1905 - 1988). He had already emigrated in 1936 and worked as the manager of a shirt retail business, Lebach-Hagen Shirt Co. Grete’s parents immigrated to the United States in 1941 with Erich’s support. Grete and Erich Lebach had two daughters, Dorothy and Joan.

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Citation

Handbag and contents owned by Grete Lebach, Leo Baeck Institute, 2001.67a-j.