Michael W. Barnes collection

Identifier: irn72799
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Michael W. Barnes.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Waffen SS knife bayonet and a scrip receipt from Westerbork, Netherlands, transit camp used during World War II in Europe.

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Waffen SS knife bayonet
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1103
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 14.875 inches (37.783 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.880 inches (2.235 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Waffen SS bayonet with proofmark.
Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1104
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Westerbork voucher, value 10 cents, acquired by Michael W. Barnes. This scrip was issued in Westerbork transit camp beginning February 15, 1944. Inmates were not allowed to have currency, which was confiscated. The vouchers [gutschein] were distributed as an incentive for doing work. Netherlands was occupied by Germany in May 1940. The camp, in northeast Holland, was originally set up by the Dutch in 1939 to intern Jewish refugees. In July 1942, the German security police and the SS turned it into a transit camp to hold prisoners before deporting them to concentration camps in the east, whe...

Michael W. Barnes collection

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Waffen SS knife bayonet

Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note