Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Small tin spoon made by Jan Wachtel while he was a prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp.
- Date
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use:
approximately 1943 November-1945 May
- Geography
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creation:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp);
Oświęcim (Poland)
use: Mauthausen (Concentration Camp); Mauthausen (Austria)
use: Gusen (Concentration camp); Gusen (Austria)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Beverly Kagan Wachtel, in memory of John Wachtel
- Contributor
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Subject:
John Wachtel
Physical Details
- Classification
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Household Utensils
- Category
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Flatware
- Object Type
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Spoons (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Handmade tin spoon with a short, flat rectangular handle with a rounded tip and a wide, shallow, oval bowl. It is very worn and scratched overall.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm)
- Materials
- overall : tin
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The spoon was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990 by Beverly Kagan Wachtel, the wife of John Wachtel.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-05 15:12:45
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514610
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Also in John Wachtel collection
The collection consists of a marriage certificate and a spoon relating to the experiences of Jan (later John) Wachtel during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp.
Date: 1940-1947
Leon Wachtel and Rausa Birzeniuk marriage certificate
Document
Marriage certificate issued to Leon Wachtel and Rausa Birzeniuk, August 1947.
