Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Dog tags issued to Ernst Breuer while serving as a soldier in the United States Army.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Julius Wald
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Classification
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Military Insignia
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Military dog tags (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Two identical dog tags and chain; the tags are aluminum rectangles with rounded short edes and a hole at center right.
a-b: tags
c: chain - Dimensions
- a: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.969 inches (5.001 cm)
b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
c: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) - Materials
- overall : metal
- Inscription
- top, both tags : BREUER, ERNEST L / 32527989 T-42-43 A
botton right, both tags: H
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The ID tags were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Julius Wald.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:29:04
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Also in Julius Wald and Ernst Breuer families collection
The collection consists of an identification tag, an autograph album, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Julius Wald and Ernest Breuer and their families, originally from Vienna, Austria, during the Holocaust when Julius was sent to Great Britain on a Kinderstransport and Ernst emigrated to the United States, and then later returned to Europe as a soldier with the the US Army.
Date: 1939-1945
Wald and Breuer families papers
Document
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Wald family from Vienna, Austria. Julius Wald, son of Markus and Helene Wald, was one of the 50 children in Vienna rescued by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in spring 1939. Included are identification documents of Julius and his sister Leonore, photographs of Julius with the other 50 children arriving in New York, and family correspondence. Also included are identification papers and United States Army documents of Ernst Breuer, Leonore Wald’s husband, and photographs from the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. The Wald family papers include birth certificates, German passports, naturalization certificates, correspondence, and photographs. Correspondence includes letters from Julius and his sisters Leonore and Mimi in the United States to their parents Helene and Markus Wald in Vienna; and letters from Markus to Helene, including one written from Dachau in 1938. Photographs include Julius with the other 50 children arriving in New York, Leonore Wald, and relatives including Julius’ grandparents and his uncle Judah Mayer. The material related to Ernst Breuer includes a copy of his birth certificate, a letter describing his eviction from his apartment in Kapfenberg, Austria because he was Jewish, a letter written by Ernst while he was a prisoner in Dachau in 1938, his German passport, immigration documents, United States Army documents, and photographs of Dachau after liberation.
Autograph album
Object
Part of the artifacts which document the experiences of the Wald family from Vienna, Austria during the time period surrounding the Holocaust.
