Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Issued to Henry Heppner while an inmate at Theresienstadt.
- Date
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1935-1945
- Geography
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issue:
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp);
Terezin (Ustecky kraj, Czech Republic)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Heppner
- Contributor
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Subject:
Henry D. Heppner
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Armbands
- Object Type
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Armbands (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Made of white fabric; embroidered trim of red thread on top and bottom; "K.Z.L. Terezin" was first written on the armband, and then red thread was sewn over the letters. "Samosprava Terezina" is stamped on the right side. There is another illegible stamp on the left.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cotton, thread, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camp inmates--Czechoslovakia.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The armband was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Henry Heppner.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:15
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn2490
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Also in Henry Heppner collection
Dorothea Baumgart papers
Document
The Dorothea Baumgart papers include a 1940 letter from someone named Selma in Prague to someone named Hilde; a 1943 decree for the confiscation of Dorothea Baumgart's property; a postcard from Dorothea Baumgart in Theresienstadt to Frieda Boldes in Auschwitz; several sheets of toilet paper Baumgart used as writing paper to describe her Holocaust experiences and claims for restitution; and a list of the Holocaust-era fates of Hertha Baumgart, Frieda Boldes, Richard Boldes, and Kurt Baumgart.
