Foterek Sperling collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12259
• English
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Bar of soap issued to Czeslaw Foterek while imprisoned in Stutthof labor-concentration camp, later given to Helen Sperling (Hinda Kacenelenbogen) by a friend. The soap was used in the concentration camp and the inmates believed that it was made from human fat, although this was not true. Czeslaw Foterek was a Roman Catholic living in Gdynia, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo on September 19, and taken to Stutthof on November 9. There he worked as a slave laborer for the German Equipment Works until his release on March 28, 1945. Hi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn12260
• English
• overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Bar of soap issued to Czeslaw Foterek while imprisoned in Stutthof labor-concentration camp, later given to Helen Sperling (Hinda Kacenelenbogen) by a friend. The soap was used in the concentration camp and the inmates believed that it was made from human fat, although this was not true. Czeslaw Foterek was a Roman Catholic living in Gdynia, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo on September 19, and taken to Stutthof on November 9. There he worked as a slave laborer for the German Equipment Works until his release on March 28, 1945. Hi...