Overview
- Brief Narrative
- The jacket was issued to Henry Mikols in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
- Date
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received:
1942
- Geography
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received:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp);
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Henry Mikols
- Markings
- "P" in black ink, written in center of red triangle
number "2636" written in black ink on white label - Contributor
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Subject:
Henry Mikols
- Biography
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Henry Mikols, born Hieronim Mikolajczak, was born in Poznan, Poland. He was arrested in May 1940, at the age of fourteen, for the purpose of performing slave labor in Germany. Eventually, he was interned in Buchenwald concentration camp. From Buchenwald, he was forced on a march to Bergen-Belsen in March 1945, where he was liberated by the British on April 15, 1945.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Clothing and Dress
- Category
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Concentration camp uniforms
- Object Type
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Jackets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Buttoned blue and gray vertically striped; white label on left breast, inverted red triangular patch sewn above white label.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm) | Width: 24.020 inches (61.011 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cotton, plastic
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The jacket was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1994 by Henry Mikols.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 17:51:35
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn8730