Numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform

Object | Accession Number: 2001.254.3.1

Date: approximately 1933-1945
Classification: Identifying Artifacts
Category: Badges
Object Type: Badges (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paul Tauchner

Physical Description: rectangular form; number "707" stamped in black ink against white background
Dimensions: overall: Height: 5.700 inches (14.478 cm) | Width: 8.100 inches (20.574 cm)
Materials: overall : cloth, ink
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Paul Tauchner.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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The Paul Tauchner collection includes a numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform, a Buchenwald concentration camp badge, a Russian army propaganda leaflet, documents regarding restrictions on Rosa Block (1867-1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard to someone interned at Theresienstadt, picture postcards depicting Adolf Hitler, and a form documenting Johanna Meisinger’s Aryan descent.

Paul Tauchner document collection

Document

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