Black and white knit bag used in slave labor camps by a Polish Jewish woman
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The knit bag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Gerald Kaiser.
approximately 1943-1944
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Black and white knit bag used in slave labor camps by a Polish Jewish woman
overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
Lined hand knit pouch given to Cesia Kaiser in one of the camps she was imprisoned in from 1942-1944, either Skarzysko-Kamienna slave labor camp or the Hasag slave labor camp in Czestochowa where she was liberated at the end of 1944. Cesia received the bag from a German woman in the camp, either a fellow prisoner or a camp guard, who used it to hide sandwiches for Cesia.
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Hand knit black and white yarn pouch with 2 knit carrying handles and a black cloth lining.