Crematorium tag
Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Consists of one cylindrical clay disc of the type which were attached to deceased prisoners' bodies during cremation to easily identify the ashes. Though the original origins of this disc, numbered 8745, are unknown, such discs were used at Theresienstadt, Sachsenhausen, Majdanek, and similar discs were also discovered at Belzec.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the de Saisset Museum
- Markings
- front, center, imprinted : 8745
Physical Details
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Labels
- Object Type
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Name tags (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Circular, gray-white, clay tag with a coarse surface. It has an oblong recess in the center with an imprinted number, and a hole near the top. Back has a blank, oblong recess.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Diameter: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
- Materials
- overall : clay
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The crematorium tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by the de Saisset Museum of Santa Clara University.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:11:15
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn9756
