Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Numbered badge from a concentration camp prisoner's uniform.
- Date
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approximately 1933-1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Paul Tauchner
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Badges (lcsh)
- 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
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Paul Tauchner.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-15 10:20:03
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn14136
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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
The Paul Tauchner document collection primarily documents 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. Rosa Block materials include an identification card, a bulletin from the Jüdische Kultusvereinigung about restrictions on movable property of Jews, a solicitation for a mandatory contribution to the Jüdische Winterhilfe, a doctor’s bill, and correspondence documenting the Prussian State Bank’s efforts to expropriate bank shares from her and the requirement that her heirs after her death not be Jewish.
Buchenwald concentration camp badge
Object
Badge worn by a prisoner at the Buchenwald concentration camp.
Russian army propaganda leaflet
Object
Russian army propagada leaflet intended to encourage German soldiers to surrender.
