Percy Brand collection
Collection
- 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.
- Date
- 1920-1985
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- Geography
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use:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp);
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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received:
approximately 1921
use: 1940-1949
- Geography
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issue:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp);
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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use:
1944 August 16-1945 April 11
- Date
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inclusive:
1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
- Geography
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creation:
Europe
- Date
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creation:
after 1945-before 1950
- Geography
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use:
United States
- Date
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use:
after 1949-1985 August 15
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:28:38
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Browse 5 Items In This Collection
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
Striped bath towel embroidered with the inmate’s prisoner number and used in Buchenwald concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.3
Percy Brand papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Poster for a literary music concert in a displaced persons camp saved by a Jewish Latvian musician
Object | Accession Number: 2006.133.5
Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin
Object | Accession Number: 2009.297.2
