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Safety razor used in a concentration camp
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
Razor 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: Safety razor used in a concentration camp
- Location: Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Provenance: The razor 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: Metal razor with silver-colored plating with copper color underneath. The handle is a hexagonal shaft dividing into 3 sections at the end. The head is a smooth, curved plate with comb teeth along the 2 long, straight edges, attached to a frame underneath by 2 rounded posts. A triangle with 4 letters is engraved near a corner on top.
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