Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Prisoner identification bracelet issued to Edwin Chwedyk at Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. It is stamped with his prisoner number 17215.
- Date
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issue:
1942 October
- Geography
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use:
Majdanek (Concentration camp);
Lublin (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph Chwedyk, In memory of my brother
- Contributor
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Subject:
Edwin Chwedyk
- Biography
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Edwin Chwedyk contracted typhoid while in the Majdanek concentration camp. He was released and returned home where he subsequently died.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Labels
- Object Type
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Identification bracelets (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Leather band with a metal tag and buckle. A number is stamped on the tag. It is curled into a v-shape.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
- Materials
- overall : leather, metal
- Inscription
- tag, stamped : 17215
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The bracelet was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Joseph Chwedyk, the brother of Edwin Chwedyk.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:21:08
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn907
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