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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…
Yona Wygocka Dickmann fashioned this jackknife from aluminum and part of a saw after the SS transferred her from Auschwitz to forced labor at an airplane factory in Freiburg, Germany, in November 1944. She used the knife to extend her daily ration of bread by cutting it in half.
In December 1939, German authorities required Jews residing in the Generalgouvernement (which included Krakow) to wear white armbands with blue Stars of David for purposes of identification. The armband pictured here was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Akiva Kohane.
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