Institute of National Remembrance collection
Collection
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a rail car used to deport victims to concentration camps, railroad tracks and components that led to Treblinka killing center, and a chain.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by the Chief Commission for Investigating Nazi Crimes in Poland, Institute of National Remembrance.
- Date
- approximately 1907-1949
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- Geography
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manufacture:
Esslingen (Germany)
- Date
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manufacture:
1920
- Geography
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manufacture:
Osnabrück (Germany)
manufacture: Dortmund (Germany)
acquired: Treblinka (Poland)
manufacture: Katowice (Poland)
- Date
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manufacture:
1910
- Geography
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acquired:
Poland
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Record last modified: 2019-06-10 09:10:55
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Browse 3 Items In This Collection
Double-door railroad freight car with brakeman’s cabin of the type used to transport victims throughout the Nazi camp system
Object | Accession Number: 1989.225.1
Railroad rails, fishplates, bolts, nuts, and washers from railroad tracks leading to Treblinka death camp
Object | Accession Number: 1989.225.2 a-cx
Yellow painted, large metal chain with a large hook on one end
Object | Accession Number: 1989.225.3
