White cloth badge with his prisoner number owned by a Belgian Jewish man deported to slave labor camps
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The badge was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Roman Schenkkan.
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White cloth badge with his prisoner number owned by a Belgian Jewish man deported to slave labor camps
overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
Prisoner badge stencilled 72704 belonging to Maurits Schenkkan who was imprisoned in several slave labor camps. Maurits, originally from Belgium, lived in the Netherlands with his Catholic German wife, Maria. Nazi Germany occupied the country in May 1940. Sometime later, Maurits was deported to Westerbork internment camp and then put on a train headed for Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. Before arriving in Auschwitz, the train stopped in Cosel sub-camp. Maurits and about 200 men were removed from the train. Maurits was then sent to a succession of slave labor camps: Anhalt, Graeditz, Langenbielau, Faulbrueck. He was liberated in Reichenbach slave labor camp in April 1945. He retuned to the Netherlands and was reunited with Maria. Maurits's parents, Levie and Rozetta, and his five siblings: Leendert, Esther, Clara, David, and Abraham all perished.
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Rectangular, white cloth badge with"7270" printed in black ink and a triangle printed in red ink