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Hand stamp with an image of a German Jewish businessman's confiscated factory

Object | Accession Number: 2007.164.2

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Hand stamp with an image of a German Jewish businessman's confiscated factory

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Hand stamp with an image of a German Jewish businessman's confiscated factory

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Hand stamp with an image of a German Jewish businessman's confiscated factory

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Date: approximately 1930-1935 (use)
Geography: depiction : Vogel and Schnumann textile factory; Karlsruhe (Germany)
use : Vogel and Schnumann textile factory; Karlsruhe (Germany)
Language: German
English
Classification: Office Equipment and Supplies
Category: Marking devices
Object Type: Hand stamps (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marlies Levenger

Physical Description: Rectangular, silver colored metal stamp die nailed to a light brown, unfinished, rectangular, wooden block mount. The die is etched with a relief image of a factory complex of several large buildings with smokestacks. The die is stained and remnants of brown paper are adhered to the mount bottom.
Dimensions: overall : 0.875 x 2.750 x 0.875 in. (2.223 x 6.985 x 2.223 cm.)
Materials: overall : wood, metal, adhesive, paper
Inscription: side edge, handwritten, black ink : 11/15 - [96?] M
Contributor: Subject: Leo Vogel
Subject: Marlies Levenger
Biography: Leo Vogel was a Jewish businessman and an owner of the Vogel and Schnumann textile factory complex in Karlsruhe, Germany. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took power in Germany. The regime persecuted the Jewish population and, through boycotts, confiscations, and forced Aryanization, took over and shut down Jewish owned enterprises. Vogel's factory was confiscated in the 1930s.
Topical Term: Confiscations--Germany--Karlsruhe.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Karlsruhe.
Jewish businesspeople--Germany--Bremen.
Jewish property--Germany--Karlsruhe.
Jews--Persecutions--Germany--Karlsruhe.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The wood block stamp was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Marlies Levenger, the daughter of Leo Vogel.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-01-16 10:06:19
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn608087

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