Concentration camp striped uniform jacket and pants worn by Romanian Jewish female inmate
- Date
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use:
approximately 1944 May-1945 April
- Geography
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received:
Birkenau (Concentration camp);
Birkenau (Germany)
use: Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp); Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Concentration camp uniforms
- Object Type
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Uniforms (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marge Stern and the Stern Family
Concentration camp uniform jacket and trousers worn by 31 year old Malka Polak-Adler from summer 1944-April 1945. She received the uniform in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland from a friend and fellow inmate to whom it had been issued. Malka wore the uniform when she was transferred in August 1944 to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. In May 1944, six weeks after Germany occupied Hungary, Malka and her parents, Leib and Gitza, were deported from the Viseu de Sus ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents were killed, presumably upon arrival. Malka was transferred in August to Bergen-Belsen which was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. Malka was hospitalized, then lived a displaced persons camp until 1946 when she returned to Ruscova, Romania.
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