Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Blue and gray striped cap issued as a uniform to Stephen Gotthelf in 1944 when he was a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Date
-
issue:
approximately 1944
- Geography
-
issue:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp);
Oświęcim (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Luise Gotthelf
- Contributor
-
Subject:
Stephen Gotthelf
Physical Details
- Classification
-
Clothing and Dress
- Category
-
Concentration camp uniforms
- Object Type
-
Caps (Headgear) (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Coarse, stiff, blue and gray striped twill cloth brimless cap with a flat, circular crown and a wide panel sewn between the headband and crown to give the cap height and shape. There is black cord trim around the crown and a side seam. On the interior, the sides are lined with gray cloth and the headband and crown are lined with black cloth, with a diamond shaped seam and extra stitching in the crown, as ifattempting to quilt the cloth. The cap has been altered to make it fit better, with a vertical cut in the hatband and a tuck sewn into the back center.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wool, cloth, thread
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The cap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Luise Gotthelf, the wife of Stephen Gotthelf.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:50:32
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8371