Henry Carter collection

Collection

Collection Summary: The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by the American Jewish Archives on behalf of Henry Carter.
Date: 1942 December-approximately 1946

Geography: use: Birkenau (Concentration camp); Brzezinka (Wojewodztwo Ma‚opolskie, Poland)
use: Monowitz (Concentration camp); Monowice (Poland)
use: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Date: use: 1942 December-1945 January
Geography: use: Birkenau (Concentration camp); Brzezinka (Wojewodztwo Ma‚opolskie, Poland)
use: Monowitz (Concentration camp); Monowice (Poland)
use: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Date: use: 1942 December-1945 January
Geography: use: Birkenau (Concentration camp); Brzezinka (Wojewodztwo Ma‚opolskie, Poland)
use: Monowitz (Concentration camp); Monowice (Poland)
use: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Date: use: 1942 December-1945 January
Geography: issue: Israel
Date: commemoration: 1939-1945
Geography: use: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Date: use: approximately 1943-1945 January
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