Belt
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Eric Bergtraun (1925-2008) was born Erich Maximilian Bergtraun in Vienna to Edmund Leon Bergtraun and Lilly Wagner Bergtraun. His family left Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was active in the underground British Boy Scouts and became Scout Master after the war. He immigrated to the United States in 1948, settled in San Francisco, and married Polly Bergtraun (nee Hertz).
The belt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Eric Bergtraun.
approximately 1939-1948
irn13826
Belt
overall: Height: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
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brown with silver buckle; image of Boy Scout fleur-de-lis attached at one end, open circle with"BE PREPARE" on other end.