Herbert Kalter collection

Identifier: irn90150
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn90150

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 by Herbert Kalter.

Scope and Content

The collection conists of a pocketknife and a bar of soap acquired by Herbert Kalter at Buna concentration camp in 1944.

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Pocketknife acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4370
- English
- 1944
- overall: Height: 6.930 inches (17.602 cm) | Width: 1.140 inches (2.896 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Herbert Kalter was able to keep the knife during his internment in Buchenwald, Langenstein, and Zweibergen.
Soap acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn4371
- English
- 1944
- overall: Height: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm) | Width: 3.620 inches (9.195 cm) | Depth: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Soap acquired by Herbert Kaller, a prisoner in Buna, a sub-camp of Auschwitz, in Poland in 1944.

Herbert Kalter collection

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Pocketknife acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp

Soap acquired by a prisoner in Buna concentration camp