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Identification tag 136616 issued at Ebensee/Mauthausen concentration camp
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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