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Mira Kimmelman collection

Collection

Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Mira Ryczke Kimmelman.

Geography: issue: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Geography: acquired: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Date: found: 1944 September
Geography: acquired: Buchenwald (Concentration camp); Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
Date: found: 1944 December
Geography: acquired: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Oświęcim (Poland)
Date: found: 1945 January 18
: Record last modified: 2020-04-30 09:40:01
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