Overview
- Date
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issue:
1942
- Geography
-
use:
Kovno ghetto (historic);
Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Labels
- Object Type
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Identification cards (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Brown paper with two binder perforations in left side; (blue?) ink stamps on both sides and an inscription on recto; recto: "Amt der Jued. Ghetto-Gemeinde/Ausweis/Nr. 1/Es wird hiermit bescheinigt, dass/../in obigem Amt der Jued. Ghetto-Gemeinde/als../../taetig ist./Leiter des Amtes/Vilijampole, den .8 Jun 1942. 1942"; verso: "Dieser Ausweis ist gueltig bis zum/.1942 VII. 8./Leiter des Amtes/Verlaengert bis zum/../Leiter des Amtes [repeated twice]."
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 5.510 inches (13.995 cm) | Width: 2.870 inches (7.29 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The identification card was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
- Record last modified:
- 2025-01-02 11:21:34
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn10343
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