Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Bar of soap issued in a German concentration camp. Irving Klapper survived Bergen Belsen and acquired the soap after the war.
- Date
-
found:
approximately 1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Klapper
- Contributor
-
Subject:
Irving Klapper
Physical Details
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Object Type
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Soap (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular-shaped, gray-brown; recto: bears repeated imprinted stamp, "RIF 0429"
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 1.620 inches (4.115 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
- Materials
- overall : soap
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The soap was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 by Irving Klapper.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:23:34
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn12560
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