Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate

Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate 

Leather belt with metal buckle worn by a concentration camp inmate 

overall: Height: 49.500 inches (125.73 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) 

Belt worn by Josef Blonder throughout his imprisonment at several concentration camps. Eighteen year old Blonder was deported, with his parents and 2 siblings, from Oradea (Nagyvarad), Romania, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. His father, Avraham, his mother, Yokheved, 21 year old brother, Barukh, and 14 year old sister, Lea, were murdered in Auschwitz. Blonder was transferred to, but survived, imprisonment in Mauthausen and its sub-camp, Gusen II.