Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- Date
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received:
1944 June
- Geography
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received:
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp);
Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Object Type
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Soap (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Erwin R. Danker
Bar of soap issued to 15-year-old Erwin Dankner in June 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The soap was never used. Erwin, his parents, Henry and Catherina, and his brother, Anthony, arrived in Bergen-Belsen by train from Budapest, Hungary, as part of a rescue effort organized by Rezso Kasztner. Later in 1944, the family was transferred to safety in Switzerland.
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