Maurits and Maria Schenkkan collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn179564
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• folders 2
• Updated 7 months ago

Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Maurits Schenkkan, born in 1912 in Berchem, Belgium, who lived in the Netherlands and married to a Catholic German woman, Maria Antosckiewisz. Maurits was deported to Westerbork internment camp in the Netherlands and from there towards Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Before arriving in Auschwitz, the train stopped in Cosel, a sub-camp of Auschwitz, and some 200 men were removed from the train, including Mauritz, who went from there to Anhalt, Graeditz, Langenbielau, Faulbrueck and Reichenbach slave labor camps whe...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn179565
• English
• overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Prisoner badge stencilled 72704 belonging to Maurits Schenkkan who was imprisoned in several slave labor camps. Maurits, originally from Belgium, lived in the Netherlands with his Catholic German wife, Maria. Nazi Germany occupied the country in May 1940. Sometime later, Maurits was deported to Westerbork internment camp and then put on a train headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Before arriving in Auschwitz, the train stopped in Cosel sub-camp. Maurits and about 200 men were removed from the train. Maurits was then sent to a succession of slave labor camps: Anhalt, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn179618
• English
• overall: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Badge in red, white, and blue colors of a flag acquired by Maria or Maurits Schenkkan after the war in Belgium. Maurits, originally from Belgium, lived in the Netherlands with his Catholic German wife, Maria. Nazi Germany occupied the country in May 1940. Sometime later, Maurits was deported to Westerbork internment camp and then put on a train headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Before arriving in Auschwitz, the train stopped in Cosel sub-camp. Maurits and about 200 men were removed from the train. Maurits was then sent to a succession of slave labor camps: Anhalt, ...