Walter Wharton collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn88140
• English
• overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Colorful, handcrafted cigarette holder made from found objects for Walter Wharton, a Jewish British Army medic, by fellow prisoners, some also Jewish, whom he cared for while interned in a concentration camp or prisoner-of-war camp in Germany from 1942 to 1945. Walter was deployed circa 1942 with the British Army Medical Corps in North Africa. He was captured after the British surrendered to German forces in Tobruk, Libya, on June 21, 1942. Walter was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. He escaped, was re-captured, and then sent to a prisoner-of war camp in Germany. Walter was eventual...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn88141
• English
• overall: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Small metal heating device, that he called an oven, made from a cigarette tin and other salvaged materials for Walter Wharton, a Jewish British Army medic, by fellow prisoners, some also Jewish, whom he cared for while interned in a concentration camp or prisoner-of-war camp in Germany from 1942 to 1945. Walter was deployed circa 1942 with the British Army Medical Corps in North Africa. He was captured after the British surrendered to German forces in Tobruk, Libya, on June 21, 1942. Walter was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. He escaped, was re-captured, and then sent to a prisoner...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn88142
• English
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Pair of miniature brown leather sandals made from salvaged materials for Walter Wharton, a Jewish British Army medic, by fellow prisoners, some also Jewish, whom he cared for while interned in a concentration camp or prisoner-of-war camp in Germany from 1942 to 1945. Walter was deployed circa 1942 with the British Army Medical Corps in North Africa. He was captured after the British surrendered to German forces in Tobruk, Libya, on June 21, 1942. Walter was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. He escaped, was re-captured, and then sent to a prisoner-of war camp in Germany. Walter was ev...