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    Title

  • Button from a concentration camp liberator

  • Physical Description

    1 button : metal ; 1 in. diameter ; 3 cm diameter

  • Date

    circa 1930

  • Summary

    The button has a crown on top and wings underneath. Button from the coat of a Swedish soldier who liberated the camp.

  • Subject

    Holocaust survivors, Germany; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

  • Medium

    Accessories; Objects; Tools and equipment

  • Part Of

    Arthur Sommerfeld family collection, AR 1983

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

The owner of the button was interned at a concentration camp in Germany or Poland in late 1944 or early 1945.

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Citation

Button from a concentration camp liberator, Leo Baeck Institute, 2006.169.