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    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of artifacts, audiocassettes, documents, and a scrapbook related to the experiences of Perec Brandt (Percy Brand) in Latvia and in several concentration camps and displaced persons camps after the Holocaust, as well as his postwar musical career.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Gertrude Brand, the widow of Percy Brand, and in 2009 by the Estate of Gertrude and Percy Brand.
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    Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps

    Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.2 a-j

    Geography
    use: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    received:  approximately 1921
    use:  1940-1949
    Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps
    Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp

    Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.3

    Geography
    issue: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    use:  1944 August 16-1945 April 11
    Percy Brand papers

    Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4

    Date
    inclusive:  1920-2003
    bulk:  1945-1985
    Percy Brand papers
    Poster for a literary music concert in a displaced persons camp saved by a Jewish Latvian musician

    Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.5

    Geography
    creation: Europe
    Date
    creation:  after 1945-before 1950
    Poster for a literary music concert in a displaced persons camp saved by a Jewish Latvian musician
    Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin

    Object | Accession Number: 2009.297.2

    Geography
    use: United States
    Date
    use:  after 1949-1985 August 15
    Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin
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