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Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Belt worn by Josef Blonder throughout his imprisonment at several concentration camps. Eighteen year old Blonder was deported, with his parents and 2 siblings, from Oradea (Nagyvarad), Romania, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. His father, Avraham, his mother, Yokheved, 21 year old brother, Barukh, and 14 year old sister, Lea, were murdered in Auschwitz. Blonder was transferred to, but survived, imprisonment in Mauthausen and its sub-camp, Gusen II.
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- Title: Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate
- Provenance: The belt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Josef Blonder.
- Subject Keywords: Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Biography. Concentration camp inmates--Austria--Biography. Deportees--Romania--Nagyvarad--Biography. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Romania--Nagyvarad--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--United States.
- Type: Dress Accessories
- Rights: Permanent Collection
- External Link: See the full record at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Medium: Brown leather belt with a black finish. There are 5 original punch holes at the end, with 4 holes added later. There is a flat silver-colored metal buckle with an incised front design of 3 stacked L shapes with raised outlines and a dark finish within the L. The buckle is not original to the belt as it does not use punch hole fasteners. It connects to the belt by a bracket on the back with a textured metal rod to secure the other end. There is a horizontal slit in the belt, near the buckle.
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