Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of fiberglass castings of a ghetto and cemetery walls, a dissecting table, a cobbled road, a doorway surround, a gateway arch, a gas chamber door, and a crematorium oven, stretcher, and poker, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum relating to the experiences of Jewish victims in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow ghettos, Majdanek and Treblinka killing centers, and Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland and Austria during the Holocaust.
- Provenance
- The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.
Browse 10 Items In This Collection
Casting of the doorway surround from the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Double-sided casting of a gas chamber door from Majdanek concentration camp
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of a concrete and metal dissecting table from the crematorium building at Majdanek concentration camp
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of Auschwitz entrance arch
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of a brick wall from the closed Warsaw Jewish Ghetto
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of a wall made from fragments of Jewish headstones at the Remu Cemetery in Kraków
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of a long fire hook used with the crematorium ovens at Mauthausen concentration camp
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of crematorium stretcher used to load the ovens at Mauthausen concentration camp
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of a double-muffle oven from the crematorium at Mauthausen concentration camp
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
Casting of a cobblestone pathway at Treblinka killing center
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manufacture: West Sussex (England)
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