Metal tag issued to inmate in Melk concentration camp

Object | Accession Number: 1996.130.1

Overview

Brief Narrative: Metal tag issued to inmate in the concentration camp Melk (subcamp of Mauthausen-Ebensee).
Date: issue: approximately 1944
Geography: issue: Melk (Concentration camp); Melk (Austria)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Nathan Romer
Contributor: Subject: Nathan Romer
Biography: Nathan Romer was born in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland. Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Nathan was forced into the ghetto in Tomaszow.He was later sen to a forced labor camp Blizin [Konskie], and to Płaszów concentration camp and then to Wieliczka, a subcamp of Płaszów, Mauthausen, Melk, and Ebensee.

Classification: Identifying Artifacts
Category: Labels
Object Type: Name tags (lcsh)
Physical Description: Rectangular metal imprinted with number 85655 (prisoner's number); two holes either end of tag.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm)
Materials: overall : metal

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The identification tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Nathan Romer.