Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Canister for a Leica camera that was used to document daily life and conditions from 1936 through the Holocaust in Krakow, Poland.
- Date
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manufacture:
1936
- Geography
-
use:
Krakow (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jacek Nowakowski
Physical Details
- Classification
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Containers
- Category
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Metal containers
- Object Type
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Canisters (aat)
- Physical Description
- Cylindrical, hollow film canister.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kraków.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The film canister was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Jacek Nowakowski.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:24
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn4285
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