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Object | Accession Number: 1999.122.1
1999.122.1 front Tag Click to enlarge

Tag issued upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Date
issue:  1944 August
Classification
Identifying Artifacts
Category
Labels
Object Type
Tags (aat)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Dore

About This Object

Physical Description
metal tag issued to Niusia Szczekacz [Helen Dore [donor]) upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, worn around her neck

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Helen Dore.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 17:51:11
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Plaque

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Object

Helen Dore photographs

Document

Contains two photographs. The first, dated 1942 in Lukow, Poland, depicts members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliating a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; the other a black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi; the father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 - 1940 in Sieradz, Poland.

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