George J. Fine collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12663
• English
• overall: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Table fork with an SS officer school stamp owned by Getzel Fingerhut. It is unclear when he acquired it, but most likely it was after his liberation from Kaufering X slave labor camp, also called Dachau 10, where he was imprisoned from August 1944 to April 1945. In August 1941, Getzel, 19, and his family were interned in the ghetto in German occupied Siauliai, Lithuania. Getzel worked in a series of forced labor camps until July 1944, when the ghetto residents were deported to Stutthof concentration camp. Getzel, his father, Josef, and his brother, Eliahu were then transferred to Kaufering ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12664
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 8 months ago

Consists of a letter written by survivor concerning the whereabouts of former member of Wehrmacht; written by Georg Fingerhut in Munich to city authorities in Aachen, Germany, requesting address for person named "Gonzen or Konzen" who demonstrated kindness to Georg and a friend while prisoners in Lithuania in 1946; response by city officals inscribed on letter, lower left, as having no information on such person

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12665
• English
• overall: Height: 24.250 inches (61.595 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Getzel Fingerhut, 22, as a replacement for his oil slicked jacket, while interned in Kaufering X slave labor camp, known as Dachau 10, from August 1944 to April 1945. Getzel was an oiler for a diesel shovel and when his jacket got covered in grease and oil ca. November, his German boss requested this one for him. He wore this jacket for 5 or 6 months, over his oily jacket, to keep warm. He made the number patch 92041, a copy of the one on his old jacket, because he would be punished if he had no identifying badge. There was only one German...