Hat brush used by a barber in a concentration camp

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 brush was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Jan Niebrzydowski. 

Hat brush used by a barber in a concentration camp 

overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) 

Hat brush 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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Elongated, S-shaped, brown, wooden brush with metal encased edges painted gray and attached by 2 tacks. One half has short natural bristles inserted into the wood in tufts; the other half is a wooden handle. The metal edges are decorated with a stamped, curving design that ends in a spiral.