Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Comb purchased by Max Kimmelman for a piece of bread in Buchenwald concentration camp.
- Date
-
found:
1944 December
- Geography
-
acquired:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp);
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mira Kimmelman
- Contributor
-
Subject:
Max Kimmelman
Physical Details
- Classification
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Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Object Type
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Combs (lcsh)
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 0.940 inches (2.388 cm) | Width: 4.170 inches (10.592 cm)
- Materials
- overall : aluminum
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The comb was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman, the wife of Max Kimmelman.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-01 09:42:31
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn5623
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