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Milton L. Shurr collection

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    Overview

    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of unused concentration camp prisoner badges relating to the experiences of Milton L. Shurr, an officer with the United States Army, Civilian Affairs Unit, attached to the 1st Army, sent to provide aid to the inmates of the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Milton L. Shurr.
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    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an A found by US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.1

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an A found by US military aid worker
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an E found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.2

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an E found by a US military aid worker
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an F found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.3

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an F found by a US military aid worker
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an I found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.4

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an I found by a US military aid worker
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an L found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.5

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an L found by a US military aid worker
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.6

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.7

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.8

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 May
    1945 April
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.9

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1946 May
    Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker
    Unused green triangle concentration camp patch with an S found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.10

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 June
    Unused green triangle concentration camp patch with an S found by a US military aid worker
    Unused black triangle concentration camp patch found by a US military aid worker

    Object | Accession Number: 1989.295.11

    Geography
    found: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945 April-1945 June
    Unused black triangle concentration camp patch found by a US military aid worker
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