This striped cap was part of a concentration camp prisoner uniform. It belonged to Karel Bruml.
Bruml was a Czech Jewish man who was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt ghetto in December 1941. From there, he was deported to Auschwitz in October 1942. At Auschwitz, Bruml was registered as a prisoner in the camp and given a prisoner number and uniform. He was transferred within the Auschwitz camp complex to Auschwitz-Monowitz (also called Auschwitz III or Buna). He remained in Auschwitz for more than two years until the camp's evacuation in January 1945. Bruml survived a death march and several other concentration camps.
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