Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Green painted identification pin impressed Werk Kratzau issued to Helen Waterford at Kratzau-Chrastava labor camp, a satellite camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp, where she was interned from October 1944 until May 1945.
- Date
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use:
1944 October-1945 May
- Geography
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issue:
Kratzau I (Concentration camp);
Chrastava (Czech Republic)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Waterford, In memory of my husband Siegfried Wohlfarth, who did not return, the father of my only child Doris Kuperman
- Contributor
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Subject:
Helen H. Waterford
- Biography
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Helen H. Waterford is a native of Offenbach, Germany, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Waterford and her first husband were hidden by non-Jews in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during most of the Nazi occupation but were discovered by the Gestapo and taken to Auschwitz where her husband died. She was later moved to Kratzau (a.k.a. Chrastava) concentration camp. After liberation, Waterford and her daughter emigrated to the United States. In 1979 she began lecturing to audiences about her experiences during the Holocaust. Waterford presently resides in Chula Vista, California.
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Forced labor badges (ushmm)
- Physical Description
- Five sided silver colored metal badge, square with a pointed, triangular top, a blue-green painted recessed field, and a central equilateral triangle enclosing a circle above the German words Werk Kratzau. A safety pin clasp is inserted horizontally through a plate and soldered on the back.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, paint
- Inscription
- front, raised : Werk / Kratzau
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 badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Helen Waterford.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-08 14:25:48
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1011
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