Text only sign found at Ebensee concentration camp crematorium by an American soldier
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm)
Archival History
The sign was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Sydney Bruskin.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sydney Bruskin
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Sign found by Sidney Bruskin, an American soldier, at the liberation at Ebensee concentration camp. The sign was removed from above an oven door inside the crematorium. The text is an epitaph expressing a wish for cremation. Bruskin served with the 80th Infantry Division Counter Intelligence Corps.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular sign made from a double layered primary support of 2 offwhite pieces of paper adhered, one on top of the other, and then adhered to a larger piece of dark brown pressed fiberboard. On the front is a pencilled drawing of candles and a flame and handwritten, calligraphic German in black writing ink on a light brown background. The image is drawn on top of the text. There is an address label on the reverse.
reverse, label : Sydney Bruskin
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 80th
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria--Personal narratives, American.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Austria.
- Soldiers--United States--Biography.
Genre
- Posters
- Object