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Metal tube for a menthol inhaler used in concentration camp

Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.8

Case for a menthol inhaler used by Alexander Stankiewicz while an inmate at Mauthausen concentration camp where he worked as a barber. Stankiewicz was a Roman Catholic Pole, living in Wloclawek, (Leslau) Poland, who was arrested in 1941 by the occupying Germans for his membership in a Polish political and literary organization. At Mauthausen, his prisoner number was 24993. After the war ended in 1945, he returned to Poland.

Date
use:  approximately 1941-1945
Geography
issue: Mauthausen (Concentration camp); Mauthausen (Austria)
Language
English
Classification
Containers
Category
Metal containers
Object Type
Inhalers (lcsh)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jan Niebrzydowski
 
Record last modified: 2023-01-19 11:27:03
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