Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Tag issued upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
- Date
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issue:
1944 August
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Dore
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Labels
- Object Type
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Tags (aat)
- Physical Description
- metal tag issued to Niusia Szczekacz [Helen Dore [donor]) upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, worn around her neck
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Helen Dore.
- Record last modified:
- 2025-01-02 11:17:17
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/bookmarks/irn13543
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Photographic print: black and white image of Germans serving in Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliate a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; dated 1942; Lukow, Poland. Photographic postcard: black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi. The father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 – 1940; Sieradz, Poland
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Object
Helen Dore photographs
Document
Contains two photographs. The first, dated 1942 in Lukow, Poland, depicts members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliating a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; the other a black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi; the father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 - 1940 in Sieradz, Poland.
