Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Waffen SS bayonet with proofmark.
- Date
-
use:
1943
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Michael W. Barnes
Physical Details
- Classification
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Weapons
- Category
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Daggers and swords (edged weapons)
- Object Type
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Bayonets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Waffen Eagle proofmarks; #43ASW etched in blade near handle.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 14.875 inches (37.783 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.880 inches (2.235 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, wood
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Equipment and supplies.
- Geographic Name
- Germany--Armed Forces.
- Corporate Name
- Waffen-SS
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The knife bayonet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Michael W. Barnes.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-28 08:09:27
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1103
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Also in Michael W. Barnes collection
The collection consists of a Waffen SS knife bayonet and a scrip receipt from Westerbork, Netherlands, transit camp used during World War II in Europe.
Date: 1943-1944
Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note
Object
Westerbork voucher, value 10 cents, acquired by Michael W. Barnes. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, where most perished. From July 1942 - September 3, 1944. nearly 200,000 Jews were deported from the camp. Most inmates had short stays at the camp. However, there were about 2000 longterm detainees who helped run the camp or were exempt from deportation. The vouchers were used with this population, most of whom were deported before the camp was liberated on April 12, 1945.
