Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Blue and white striped pants issued as a uniform to Dr. Karl Targownik, a Polish Jew who was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp from 1944-1945.
- Date
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use:
1944-1945
- Geography
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use:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp);
Oświęcim (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sarah Adler
- Contributor
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Subject:
Karl K. Targownik
- Biography
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Karl Targownik (1915-1996) was born in Budapest to Herschel and Beile Targownik, Polish Jews who were taking refuge in Hungary during World War I. His family returned to Poland following the war, settling in Bochnia, near Krakow, and Targownik studied science and medicine. He survived the Bochnia ghetto and labor camp, was transferred to the Płaszów labor camp, and was deported to Auschwitz in February 1944. He was assigned to Auschwitz I until May 1944, when he was transferred to Auschwitz II and assigned to the Aufräumungs Kommando at Kanada II, where he was made to clean out the trains following transports. In 1944, he was moved through Sachsenhausen to Dachau and Kaufering, where he was forced to perform forced labor for the Moll Kommando. He survived a death march to the main camp at Dachau and was liberated in April 1945. He worked for the American Intelligence Corps of the Army and completed his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. His parents, sisters, and brothers-in-law perished during the Holocaust.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Concentration camp uniforms
- Object Type
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Pants (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Blue and gray vertically striped cotton pants, pieced together from a variety of other camp uniform pants.
- Materials
- overall : cotton, bakelite (tm)
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The pants were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Sarah Adler, the daughter of Karl Targownik.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-09-20 08:31:44
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11311
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The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform relating to the experiences of Karl Targownik when he was a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust.
Date: 1944-1945
Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Polish Jewish inmate
Object
Blue and white striped jackets issued as a uniform to Dr. Karl Targownik, a Polish Jew who was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp from 1944-1945.
