SS insignia ring taken from a concentration camp guard by inmates to give to a US soldier
- Date
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received:
1945 April-1945 May
- Geography
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received:
Dachau (Concentration camp);
Dachau (Germany)
- Classification
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Jewelry
- Category
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Rings
- Object Type
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Signet rings (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Robert Hess
Figner ring with the SS dual lightning bolt insignia given to Robert Hess by inmates at the recently liberated Dachau concentration camp. A group of former prisoners took the ring by cutting off the finger of an SS soldier in order to present it as a gift to Hess. Hess was a soldier with the United States 92nd Signal Battalion and was at Dachau around the time of its liberation.
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:11:29
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Also in This Collection
Robert Hess papers
Document
Collection consists of copy prints and photocopies. Includes copies of a letter, diary and newspaper article concerning the liberation of Dachau, and copyprints of post-liberation Dachau.