Cloth square cut from a blue and gray striped concentration camp inmate uniform

Identifier
irn514804
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1988.82.4
Dates
1 Jan 1943 - 31 Dec 1943
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the Hachshara in Ellguth (Oberschlesien), Gut Winkel, near Berlin, and finally Neuendorf bei Fürstenwalde, where she also worked at a German military laundry. In April 1943, Anny and Heinz, now her husband, were deported with their friends to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Anny was assigned to the camp police. Heinz, age 32, was sent to Ebensee slave labor camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen) where he died just before liberation in May 1945. Anny was sent on a death march from Auschwitz to Malchow, a subcamp of Ravensbrück, in January 1945. She escaped during the evacuation from Malchow in May 1945. She joined her sisters Emmy Pomper and Sabina Heliczer in the United States in 1946. Her mother survived Theresienstadt and immigrated to the United States in 1947. Anny later married Czech Holocaust survivor Robert West.

Archival History

The cloth was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Ann West.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ann West

Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Scope and Content

The blue and gray-striped cloth was cut from an inmate's uniform at Auschwitz concentration camp

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Blue and gray striped fabric from an inmate's uniform.

Subjects

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.