Harry Houdini claims to house the largest collection of original Houdini artifacts in Europe. The Houdini Museum of New York is located at Fantasma Magic, a retail magic manufacturer and seller located in Manhattan. The museum contains several hundred pieces of ephemera, most of which belonged to Harry Houdini. Houdini published numerous books during his career (some of which were written by his good friend Walter B. Gibson, the creator of The Shadow) Harry Houdini Harry Houdini (; born Erik Weisz, later Ehrich Weiss or Harry Weiss; March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926) was a Hungarian-born American illusionist and stunt performer,
Elsa Ehrich the United States back to Germany. Ehrich was born in Bredereiche. She worked in a slaughterhouse. On 15 August 1940 she volunteered for service in the concentration camp Ravensbrück as an SS guard. From 1941 on, Ehrich worked as a SS-Rapportführerin (Rapport Leader). In October 1942 she was transferred to Majdanek near Lublin, where after some time she was promoted to SS-Oberaufseherin. She was under the "SS" command in the camp. Ehrich is blamed for the death of thousands of prisoners (including in gas chambers), from the women's section of the camp with children. During the 34 months of camp