Arie Torner collection

Identifier: irn593668
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn593668

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Louis Widawski, in memory of Arie Torner.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a belt, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Arie Torner in the Netherlands and Poland before World War II, in several forced labor camps and in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the Holocaust, and in the Netherlands and the United States after the war.

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Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn594797
- English
- overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 41.625 inches (105.728 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Leather belt worn by Arie Torner during his internment in various ghettos, labor camps, and concentration camps in German-occupied Poland from October 1941 through May 8, 1945. While being held, Arie had to add seven hand-cut holes to the belt to compensate for all of the weight he lost due to malnutrition and the small quantity of food provided to prisoners. Arie was born in Wloclawek, Poland, but was living with his family in Rotterdam, Netherlands by 1940. His parents Chaim and Malka, his sister, and his five brothers were all killed when the German Luftwaffe bombed the city on May 14, 1...
Arie Torner collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn594798
- English
- box oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains documents, testimonies, photographs, and other materials concerning the Holocaust experiences of Arie Torner, son of Chaim and Malka Torner, who was born in Wloclawek, Poland, on November 18, 1918.
Presentation by Arie Torner
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn596752
- English
- 1 videocassette (VHS),
- Updated 1 year ago

Arie Torner collection

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Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Arie Torner collection

Presentation by Arie Torner