Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of a yarn doll, seven pieces of currency, a pennant, and a soap bar relating to the experiences of Harold B. Conlan, a soldier in the 701st Company D, US Army, which assisted in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in April 1945.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Ruth Conlan, the wife of Harold Burdette Conlan.
Browse 10 Items In This Collection
Yarn doll, bag, and scrap of money found in a liberated camp by US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.1 a-c
Soap found in a liberated concentration camp by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.2
Red pennant with swastika found at a liberated concentration camp by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.3
Nazi Germany, 50 reichspfennig coin found by an American soldier/liberator
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.4
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
Nazi Germany, 5 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.5
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.6
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.7
manufacture: Hamburg (Germany)
found: approximately 1945 April
Nazi Germany, 50 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.8
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
Allied Military Authority currency, 2 francs, for use in France, owned by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.9
Allied Military Authority currency, 5 francs, for use in France, owned by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.10
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