Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp

Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp 

Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp 

overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm) 

Cigarette lighter fabricated by Laszlo Weisz while he was imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Russia. He was a master watchmaker and bartered his services to obtain provisions while in the camps. Weisz was 29 years old and living with his wife and 5 year old son, Peter, in his hometown of Kunszentmarton, Hungary, when he was conscripted into a forced labor battalion in June of 1942. He was transferred to several labor units in Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union. At the end of the war in late 1944-1945, he was in a labor camp in Dnepropetrovsk in the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary and learned that his wife and son had been killed in Auschwitz death camp.