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1. Cut and uncut granite stones from a quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1991.134.1
Date:
manufacture: after 1938 April-before 1945 May 05
… “Stairs of Death.” Prisoners under SS control were subject to “extermination through work,” and many died or were killed in the quarry as a result. Under…
2. Brick rubble recovered from the Warsaw Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.294.1
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May-circa 1990
commemoration: 1940 October-1943 May
… transported the remaining inhabitants to forced-labor camps and killing centers. On July 19, 1943, the SS established Warsaw (Warschau in German) concentration…
3. Concrete remnants excavated from the crematorium at Chelmno killing center
Object | Accession Number: 1989.308.31 a-c
Date:
use: after 1942 September-approximately 1943 March
recovered: 1986-1987
… killing center operated by the German SS and police authorities in German-occupied Poland.…
4. Two mother-of-pearl shards saved from a Jewish owned factory and given to a survivor 50 years later
1989.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.204.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1937
received: 1987 July
… stopped and questioned by an SS officer. He realized she was Jewish but she bribed him with her last gold coin and he let her go. She went to the Vistula…
5. Building stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate
1991.160.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.160.2
… Austria as a forced laborer and later imprisoned in Flossenburg and Mauthausen concentration camps during the Holocaust.…
6. Granite stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1991.160.1
… Austria as a forced laborer and later imprisoned in Flossenburg and Mauthausen concentration camps during the Holocaust.…
7. Flake of mica collected from Theresienstadt by a German Jewish factory worker
2016.552.4 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.4
Date:
acquired: after 1942 September 16-before 1945 May 09
… on November 9-10, 1938. The following day, however, the SS arrested Ludwig, sending him and 10,000 other Jews to Buchenwald concentration camp, where…
8. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1990.192.1 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1944 July
manufacture: 1941 October-1944 July
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku…