Abraham Lewent's prisoner jacket [LCID: 1998v8fv]
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Abraham Lewent's prisoner jacket

Abraham Lewent, who had been sent from the Warsaw ghetto to Majdanek and later transferred to several concentration camps in Germany, wore this jacket as part of the uniform issued to him upon his arrival in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1944.


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