Small metal bowl used in a concentration camp
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Alexander Stankiewicz, a Roman Catholic, was born on November 16, 1903, in Kamienskoje (or Kaminsk) Poland (or Russia). He was of Polish nationality and lived with his mother, Stanislawa Raczowska. He was barber and hairdresser. In 1941, he lived in Wloclawek, Poland, called Leslau by the occupying Germans. He was arrested February 16 for membership in a Polish political and literary organization, Kujawski Zwiazek Polityczno Literacki Zew. He was sentenced to prison and sent to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. His prisoner number was 24993. On March 11, 1943, he was transferred to a work detail in a nearby subcamp in Linz. After the war, he returned to Poland.
The bowl was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Jan Niebrzydowski.
approximately 1941-1945
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Small metal bowl used in a concentration camp
overall: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
Tin bowl used by Alexander Stankiewicz while an inmate at Mauthausen concentration camp where he worked as a barber. Stankiewicz was a Roman Catholic Pole, living in Wloclawek, (Leslau) Poland, who was arrested in 1941 by the occupying Germans for his membership in a Polish political and literary organization. At Mauthausen, his prisoner number was 24993. After the war ended in 1945, he returned to Poland.
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Dull silver-colored, circular, metal bowl with a flat bottom and a folded rim that is flattened on one side.