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Sam Klasner collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of a pair of shoes, calipers, a certificate, documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Sam Klasner during the Holocaust when he was a forced laborer in the factory owned by Oskar Schindler in German occupied Czechoslovakia and after the Holocaust when he lived in a displaced persons camp in Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Bruce Klasner, the son of Sam Klasner. An accretion was received in 2017.
Date
1945-1949
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Sam Klasner papers

Document | Accession Number: 2004.702.1

Date
1945-1949

Pair of leather slippers received from Oskar Schindler by a Jewish Polish worker

Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.2 a-b

Geography
received: Brünnlitz (Concentration camp); Brněnec (Czech Republic)
Date
received:  1945 May
Pair of leather slippers received from Oskar Schindler by a Jewish Polish worker

Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory

Object | Accession Number: 2004.702.3

Geography
use: Brünnlitz (Concentration camp); Brněnec (Czech Republic)
Date
use:  1944 October-1945 May
Vernier calipers used by a Jewish Polish worker in Oskar Schindler's armament factory

Samuel Klasner restitution papers

Document | Accession Number: 2017.514.1

 
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