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Spoon recovered postwar near Belzec killing center

Object | Accession Number: 1998.48.2
1998.48.1-.3 front Spoon recovered postwar near Belzec killing center Click to enlarge 1998.48.2 front Spoon recovered postwar near Belzec killing center Click to enlarge

Silver spoon recovered on the perimeter of the Belzec killing center in Poland.

Geography
found : Belzec (Concentration camp); Belzec (Poland)
Classification
Household Utensils
Category
Flatware
Object Type
Tablespoons (Flatware) (lcsh)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Polish Government
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About This Object

Physical Description
Silver colored metal spoon with a large bowl. The handle has a triangualr point and tapers towards the bowl. There is a diamond-shaped segment near bowl and incised lines on the handle top and bottom near this section and where the handle starts to widen at the end. The bowl is depressed from the handle.
Dimensions
overall : 8.500 x 1.750 x 1.000 in. (21.59 x 4.445 x 2.54 cm.)
Materials
overall : metal

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The spoon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by the Polish Government.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2018-10-24 14:07:58
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Also in Polish Government presentation set collection

The collection consists a presentation case and two spoons recovered after the war near Belzec killing center in Poland.

Date: approximately 1945

Spoon recovered postwar near Belzec killing center

Spoon recovered postwar near Belzec killing center

Object

Silver spoon recovered on the perimeter of the Belzec killing center in Poland.

Presentation case used to hold spoons recovered near Belzec killing center

Presentation case used to hold spoons recovered near Belzec killing center

Object

Presentation case used to hold spoons recovered on the perimeter of Belzec killing center in Poland that were presented to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by the Prime Minister of the Polish Republic in 1998. See records 1998.48.1 and 1998.43.2 for the presentation spoons.

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