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51. Oxyacetylene welding torch neck with cutting tip from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.21
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… experimental weapons. In October 1944, the SS made Dora-Mittelbau an independent concentration camp with more than 30 subcamps of its own. The secret…
52. Welding torch cap from the Dora Mittelbau V2 factory
Object | Accession Number: 2007.486.15
Date:
acquired: 1945 April-1945 July 05
… Dora-Mittelbau camp was originally a subcamp of Buchenwald. Allied air raids on German industrial complexes pushed Nazi authorities to use concentration…
53. Branding iron retrieved from Dachau by a US soldier
1995.109.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.109.1
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
…Branding iron discovered by Andrew J. Highbarger at Dachau concentration camp. Highbarger was a sergeant in the 4th Division of the 3rd US Army. He…
54. Plastic button with metal eagle owned by a US soldier
2005.416.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.14
Date:
received: approximately 1941-1946
… battalion is known for its role in the Battle of the Bulge and for the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, in Germany…
55. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.22 a-j
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… worker, at the camp in 1948. Hans had been a prisoner of Monowitz, Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenberg, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. His…
56. Horvex light meter, case, and notes used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.43_b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.43 a-c
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1938
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
57. Plastic button with metal eagle owned by a US soldier
2005.416.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.15
Date:
received: approximately 1941-1946
… battalion is known for its role in the Battle of the Bulge and for the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, in Germany…