White patch with prisoner number and name worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
- Date
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received:
approximately 1944 December 24-1945 April 11
- Geography
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use:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp);
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Language
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German
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Prisoner badges (ushmm)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dr. Jacob Dimant
White cloth badge stencilled 15349123 worn by 31 year old Symcho Dymant while he was an inmate in Buchenwald concentration camp from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced to move into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, was able to get a civilian job in a German military installation by assuming the identity of a non-Jewish Polish person. In September 1942, Tonia, Aaron, and the rest of Symcho’s family were sent to Treblinka and killed. The SS discovered that Symcho was Jewish and he was deported to Buchenwald in Germany, arriving on December 24, 1944. He was assigned prisoner number 15349 and was a slave laborer in a nearby military factory. On April 11, 1945, Symcho was liberated by American forces. He lived in Fulda displaced persons camps before joining Kibbutz Buchenwald. The rabbi of the kibbutz arranged for the members to emigrate to Palestine in September 1945.
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