Striped concentration camp jacket worn by a Polish Jewish youth in several concentration and slave labor camps

Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to 20 year old Abraham Lewent in November 1944 in Buchenwald concentration camp and worn in several other camps until his liberation by American troops in April 1945. After the collapse of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943, Abraham and his father Raphael were deported to Majdanek concentration camp where his father was killed. After two months, Abraham was transferred to Skarżysko-Kamienna slave labor camp, then to Buchenwald concentration camp, a month later to a subcamp, Schlieben, then back to Buchenwald. He was transferred to Bisingen, a subcamp of Natzweiler-Struthof for about 8-10 weeks, and then sent to Allach, a Dachau subcamp. In early April 1945, as Allied forces neared the camp, the inmates were sent on a death march, until loaded on a train. On April 30, the train stopped near Starnberg. The guards ran away. The inmates, too ill and weak to stand, pushed each other out of the train, and they rolled down a hill to a road with American tanks. Abraham, very ill and weighing only 80 pounds, was taken to a Red Cross tent where he began his recuperation. He lost his entire, extended family during the Holocaust. Most of them were murdered in Treblinka. Abraham emigrated to the US in 1949.