Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Staff Sargeant Urano S. N. Caranchini of the 260th Combat Engineers, removed this blanket from Dachau.
- Date
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found:
approximately 1945
- Geography
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found:
Dachau (Concentration camp) after liberation;
Dachau (Germany)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ruth A. Caranchini. In memory of her husband Urano S.N. Caranchini, Staff Sergeant-U.S. Army Company B 260 Combat Engineer Battalion, ETO.
- Contributor
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Subject:
Urano S. Caranchini
Physical Details
- Classification
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Furnishings and Furniture
- Category
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Household linens
- Object Type
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Blankets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Wool blanket.
- Materials
- overall : wool
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The blanket was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Mrs. Ruth A. Caranchini.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-11-07 14:51:45
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9029
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The collection consists of two blankets removed from Dachau after liberation by Staff Sargeant Urano S. N. Caranchini of the 260th Combat Engineers.
Blanket removed from Dachau concentration camp after liberation
Object
Staff Sargeant Urano S. N. Caranchini of the 260th Combat Engineers, removed this blanket from Dachau.
