us-005578-irn73303-irn616842
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archival history: The jacket was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Anna Krosnecki, the daughter of Herman Fayman.
biographical history: Herman Fayman (1906-1986) was born in Pelizza Poland (likely Pilica, Poland), to Jewish parents, Moische and Sara (nee Pachter) Fayman. Jewish life in Pilica can be traced back continuously to the end of the 17th century, when the ban on Jewish residence in the town was lifted. The town was a center of Hasidism and had a majority Jewish population. Herman worked as a locksmith and a farmer, and before the war, he was a soldier in Krakow. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of war (POWs). He was interned in a POW camp in German-occupied Biała Podlaska, along with 500 other Jewish POWs who arrived in early 1940. From Biała Podlaska, Herman was sent to the town of Sosnowitz (now Sosnowiec), where the Nazi authorities had taken away the Jewish population’s rights and isolated them from the rest of the population and the town’s economic life. In March, 1941, Herman was transported from Sosnowitz to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was placed in the main camp, where prisoners were used as forced laborers to expand the camp complex, which would eventually grow to include Auschwitz-Birkenau and Monowitz. Herman remained in Auschwitz for five months before he was transported a few miles north, to Kattowitz (now Katowice) in September. In 1942, he was sent to Faulbrück forced labor camp, in Faulbrück, (now Mościsko) located in Lower Silesia. Faulbrück was a subcamp in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp system. In the summer of 1944, Herman was sent to a newly constructed forced labor subcamp of Gross-Rosen, in Landeshut (now Kamienna Góra). In the camp, prisoners were forced to manufacture roller and ball bearings. Herman was only in Landeshut for a short time before he was deported to a forced labor camp in Annaberg, Germany (now Góra Swietej Anny, Poland). The prisoners in the Annaberg camp were forced to do carpentry work for Altana carpentry, tailor uni…
physical characteristics and technical requirements: Blue and white, vertically striped, hip-length, long-sleeved, medium-weight, herringbone weave cloth jacket. The stripes are woven into the cloth, and the seams are machine stitched with cream-colored thread. The straight collar has pointed tips and is fastened with a silver-colored metal hook and eye closure. The front placket has five circular buttons stitched to the right side: two brownish-gray leather buttons, one cream-colored cloth button with metal lining its two holes, a marbled brown plastic button with a raised lip, and a pearly white plastic button stained around the edges. There are five corresponding, finished, horizontal buttonholes along the left side. A rectangular, discolored white cloth patch with a five-digit prisoner number handwritten in black ink is hand sewn to the left breast. An inverted, red cloth triangle is sewn below it. There is a machine stitched center seam down the back. On the interior of the jacket, a white and blue cloth hanging loop is sewn to the collar. On the interior, front lower left, a square, white and blue gingham print, patch pocket is hand sewn on with white thread. The jacket is extremely worn out. It has holes throughout, particularly around the hem, lower and inner sleeves, collar, shoulders, and upper back. There are large holes in the right shoulder and each armpit. There is staining overall, specifically concentrated on the upper back, small red stains on the front lower right, and a red pen ink stain at the left armpit. front, left breast, patch, handwritten, black ink : 95636
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date: 1944 September-1945 April
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identifier: irn616842
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 25.500 inches (64.77 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
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scope and content: Striped uniform jacket worn by Herman Fayman while he was a prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp and its subcamp, Niederorschel forced labor camp in Germany, from September 1944 to spring 1945. Herman was born in Pelizza (likely Pilica), Poland, in 1906. In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, Herman was serving in the Polish army when he was captured as a prisoner of war (POW). Herman was interned in a POW camp in Biała Podlaska, and then sent to the town of Sosnowitz (now Sosnowiec). He was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp in March, 1941. After five months, he was sent to Kattowitz (now Katowice). Between 1942 until 1944, Herman was held in three forced labors camps: one in Faulbrück, (now Mościsko), one in Landeshut (now Kamienna Góra), and one in Annaberg, Germany (now, Góra Swietej Anny, Poland). In the late spring or early summer of 1944, Herman was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. On September 30, Herman was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, and then to one of its subcamps, Niederorschel, on October 30. In the spring of 1945, Herman escaped and went into hiding until American forces liberated the area. On February 21, 1947, Herman immigrated to the United States.
title: Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps