Box removed postwar from Gusen concentration camp in Austria

Object | Accession Number: 1995.90.2

Overview

Brief Narrative: Retreived by Cecil Welch, 1945, Gusen concentration camp.
Date: found: 1945
Geography: acquired: Gusen (Concentration camp); Gusen (Austria)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ron Paul
Signature: side of box, on paper, stapled to box "Cecil Welch 1st Sgt"
Contributor: Subject: Cecil Welch

Language: English
Classification: Containers
Category: Boxes
Object Type: Wooden boxes (lcsh)
Physical Description: Rectangular open box; type and hand-written note stapled to one side.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 7.990 inches (20.295 cm)
Materials: overall : wood, paper, metal, ink
Inscription: type and hand-written note stapled to box reading " [typed] "I certify that the inclosed [sic] articles are a bona fide gift [paper cut]/at less than 50 dollars from a member of the Armes Forces of [paper cut]/United States on duty outside the continental limits of the u[paper cut]/States and under Public Law 790 are entitled to free entry. [end type]...[hand-inscribed]/Contains gifts to me from liberated inmates of Gusen/concentration camp...[end inscription]"; at left side, and partially covered by, stapled note, the following is inscribed "[partially visible] From/1st Sgt/35160/Bn Hq./APO 20" in ink; see Remarks regarding remaining inscriptions (not enough room in this field)
below stapled note is inscription "To Mrs Thomas Welch/629 Eugene st/Indianapolis 8/Indiana" in ink
bottom of box inscribed "From/1st Sgt C. C. Welch/35166350/2nd Bn. Hq. 260 Inf./APO 200/c/o P. M N. Y. N. Y./To Mrs T. Welch/629 Eugene st/Indianapolis 8/Indiana" in colored pencil or crayon

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The box was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Ron Paul for the Welch Family.