Harold B. Conlan collection
- 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.
- Date
- approximately 1945 April
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- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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found:
after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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found:
after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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found:
after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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issue:
1935
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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issue:
1940
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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issue:
1942
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp);
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
manufacture: Hamburg (Germany)
- Date
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issue:
1942
found: approximately 1945 April
- Geography
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found:
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) postliberation;
Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)
- Date
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issue:
1943
found: after 1945 April 11-before 1945 August
- Date
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issue:
1944
- Date
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issue:
1944
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Record last modified: 2019-12-04 15:04:12
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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
Nazi Germany, 5 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.5
Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.6
Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.7
Nazi Germany, 50 reichspfennig coin found in a liberated camp by an American soldier
Object | Accession Number: 1992.122.8
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