Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of artifacts: a dog tag, a nightstick, a pair of brass knuckles, and a bootjack, correspondence, documents, a manuscript, and photographs relating to Salomon Strauss-Marko, originally from Warek, Poland, during the Holocaust when he lived under a false identity as a Ukrainian while imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp in Germany and in concentration/labor camps in Austria.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Eva Strauss-Marko, the wife of Salomon Strauss-Marko.
Browse 5 Items In This Collection
Prisoner id tag issued to a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.2
use: 1939 September-1945 May
Rubber truncheon used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.3
Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.4
use: Wiener Neustadt (Concentration camp); Wiener Neustadt (Austria)
Brass knuckles used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.5
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