Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Badge worn by a slave laborer at Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp.
- Date
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use:
1945
- Geography
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use:
Dora (concentration camp);
Nordhausen (Thuringia, Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Laib Opoczynski
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Badges (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Hexagonal, metal with gray enamel background, "Tf. in red enamel, "Halle 40" in blue enamel, "Moch." in black enamel.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, enamel
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 badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Laib Opoczynski.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-11-14 12:54:09
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn11711
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Identification tag
Object
Metal identification tag worn by prisoner of Funfteichen Concentration Camp
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Document
Contains a certificate issued to Laib Opoczynski, April 1946, stating that he has been given materials by the British Red Cross; D.P. index card issued to Opoczynski in July 1945 that functioned as an identification document; a photocopy of an identity card issued to Aryo Opoczynski (donor's brother), April 1946; and an envelope with a pre-printed map of Germany and the annexed territories of Poland.
Prayer book
Object
Jewish prayer book distributed to Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps in Germany by Vaad Hatzala.
Chana Opoczynski death announcement
Document
Contains a death announcement for Chana Opoczynski, Laib Opoczynski's mother, June 1929, Bendzin, Poland.
