Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Olympic torch holder used during the 1936 Summer Olympics.
- Date
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manufacture:
1936
use: 1935-1936
- Geography
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manufacture:
Essen (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Zepkowitz family. This gift is made by the Zepkowitz family in memory of the Rzepkowicz family of Koluszki, Lodz, Poland and of the Bloch family of Munkacz, Hungary, who were murdered by the Nazis.
- Markings
- top of torch : *ALS DANK DEM TRAGER / ORGANISATIOS-KOMITEE FÜR DIE XI. OLYMPIADE BERLIN 1936*
on shaft, under eagle, winding around shaft : FACKEL-STAFFEL-LAUF / OLYMPIA-BERLIN / 1936
under top plate : KRUPP NIROSTA V2A STAHL / STIFTUNG DER FRIED. KRUPP A.G., ESSEN - Contributor
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Manufacturer:
ThyssenKrupp AG
Designer: Walter Lemcke
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Furnishings and Furniture
- Category
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Lighting devices
- Object Type
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Torch holders (aat)
- Physical Description
- Stainless steel torch holder with a flared base engraved with the 1936 torch relay route from Olympia, Greece, to Berlin, Germany, winding around the handle. The handle is hollow with a circular plate with a curled edge at the top. The hollow center of handle passed through the plate and would have held the wooden torch. Engraved above the relay route is a Reichsadler, a dexter facing eagle holding the Olympic rings in place of the usual swastika in its talons. There is German text engraved on the top of the torch and on the plate and the shaft.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm)
- Materials
- overall : stainless steel
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- National socialism and sports--Germany.
- Geographic Name
- German--History--1933-1945.
- Meeting Name
- Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The Olympic torch holder was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Eitan Zepkowitz.
- Record last modified:
- 2025-01-02 11:07:33
- This page:
- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn81244
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