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Prisoner badge

Object | Accession Number: 2000.287.2
2000.287.2 front Prisoner badge Click to enlarge
Classification
Identifying Artifacts
Category
Badges
Object Type
Prisoner badges (ushmm)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Schneider

About This Object

Physical Description
Steel, stamped prisoner number, rectangular in shape with clipped corners. Holes punched through the metal on both the right and left edges at the center. Number "85938" is stamped into the steel.
Dimensions
Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.810 inches (4.597 cm)
Materials
overall : metal

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The identification tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by David Schneider.

Rights and Restrictions

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

 
Record last modified: 2023-11-14 12:54:34
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn30114

Also in David Schneider collection

The collection consists of scrip, an identification tag, and three identification cards.

Mauthausen labor camp scrip, 50 pfennig reichmark note

Mauthausen labor camp scrip, 50 pfennig reichmark note

Object

David Schneider Papers

Document

The David Schneider papers consists of Mauthausen scrip; an identity card for the Selfaid of the Jewish Former Concentration Camp Inmates of Upper Austria, including a photograph; and two Ausweises (identification cards), one bearing a red ink stamp reading "Liberated Camp of Ebensee," the other bearing stamps along with handwritten and typewritten information about the bearer.

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