Pocket knife used by a Polish Jewish female slave laborer
- Date
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creation:
1944 November
- Geography
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use:
slave labor factory;
Freiburg (Germany)
- Classification
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Tools and Equipment
- Category
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Cutting tools
- Object Type
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Pocketknives (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yona Wygocka Dickmann
Jack knife made from materials salvaged from a saw and airplane parts made by Yona Wygocka circa November 1944 when she was a slave laborer in an ammunition factory in Freiburg, Germany. She had been sent there from Auschwitz concentration camp. . She used the knife to cut her daily portion of bread which she shared with her aunt.
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