Text only sign found at Ebensee concentration camp crematorium by an American soldier
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The sign was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 by Sydney Bruskin.
1945 May 06
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Text only sign found at Ebensee concentration camp crematorium by an American soldier
overall: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm)
Sign found by Sidney Bruskin, an American soldier, at the liberation at Ebensee concentration camp. The sign was removed from above an oven door inside the crematorium. The text is an epitaph expressing a wish for cremation. Bruskin served with the 80th Infantry Division Counter Intelligence Corps.
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Rectangular sign made from a double layered primary support of 2 offwhite pieces of paper adhered, one on top of the other, and then adhered to a larger piece of dark brown pressed fiberboard. On the front is a pencilled drawing of candles and a flame and handwritten, calligraphic German in black writing ink on a light brown background. The image is drawn on top of the text. There is an address label on the reverse.
reverse, label : Sydney Bruskin