Salomon Strauss-Marko collection

Identifier
irn521890
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Eva Strauss-Marko, the wife of Salomon Strauss-Marko.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts: a dog tag, a nightstick, a pair of brass knuckles, and a bootjack, correspondence, documents, a manuscript, and photographs relating to Salomon Strauss-Marko, originally from Warek, Poland, during the Holocaust when he lived under a false identity as a Ukrainian while imprisoned in a prisoner of war camp in Germany and in concentration/labor camps in Austria.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.