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Guide attachment for a manual hair clipper used at a concentration camp
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Interchangeable comb attachment used by Alexander Stankiewicz while an inmate at Mauthausen concentration camp where he worked as a barber. Stankiewicz was a Roman Catholic Pole, living in Wloclawek, (Leslau) Poland, who was arrested in 1941 by the occupying Germans for his membership in a Polish political and literary organization. At Mauthausen, his prisoner number was 24993. After the war ended in 1945, he returned to Poland.
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Details
- Title: Guide attachment for a manual hair clipper used at a concentration camp
- Location: Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Provenance: The clipper attachment was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Jan Niebrzydowski.
- Subject Keywords: Concentration camp inmates--Austria. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives, Polish. Political prisoners--Poland--Biography. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, Polish.
- Type: Personal Equipment and Supplies
- Rights: Permanent Collection
- External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Medium: Silver-colored, rectangular metal plate with 10 comb teeth attached to one of the wide edges. The teeth are one and a half times the length of the plate. The edges on either side of the comb are bent up to serve as brackets.
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