Chessboard handmade postwar by a liberated inmate
Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Made for Cecil Welch, by liberated inmate interned in Mauthausen sub-camp Gusen immediately following liberation.
- Date
-
creation:
1945
- Geography
-
creation:
Gusen (Concentration camp);
Gusen (Austria)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ron Paul
- Contributor
-
Subject:
Cecil Welch
Physical Details
- Classification
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Toys
- Category
-
Games
- Object Type
-
Chessboards (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Chess board [checker board] in-laid wood, surrounded by border of diamond-shaped, in-laid wooden pieces, surrounded by green felt.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 16.730 inches (42.494 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wool, wood, adhesive
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The chessboard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Ron Paul for the Welch Family.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:23:13
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11083
Also in Cecil Welch collection
The collection consists of a chessboard and a wooden box.
Date: 1945
Box removed postwar from Gusen concentration camp in Austria
Object
Retreived by Cecil Welch, 1945, Gusen concentration camp.
