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Identification tag 136616 issued at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States

Identification tag issued to 14 year old Emil Fekete, later Black, in Ebensee concentration camp, Austria. Emil, a Hungarian Jew, was imprisoned there in January 1945, after several months in Auschwitz and Wolfsberg concentration camps. While at Ebensee, he was a slave laborer for Siemens AG, constructing tunnels for underground factories. He was liberated by American troops on May 6, 1945.

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  • Title: Identification tag 136616 issued at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp
  • Provenance: The identification tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Howard Black, Dr. Michael D. Black, and Lisa C. Lubinsky, the children of Emil Black.
  • Subject Keywords: Child concentration camp inmates--Austria--Biography. Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Biography. Slave labor--Austria--Ebensee--Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Hungary--Personal narratives. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Austria.
  • Type: Identifying Artifacts
  • Rights: Permanent Collection
  • External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Medium: Silver-colored, metal, rectangular, identification tag with cut off, angled corners. There is a hole at each end where it was attached to a bracelet. The number, 136616, is stamped into the metal.
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