The box was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Ron Paul for the Welch Family.
Rectangular open box; type and hand-written note stapled to one side. type and hand-written note stapled to box reading" [typed]"I certify that the inclosed [sic] articles are a bona fide gift [paper cut]/at less than 50 dollars from a member of the Armes Forces of [paper cut]/United States on duty outside the continental limits of the u[paper cut]/States and under Public Law 790 are entitled to free entry. [end type]...[hand-inscribed]/Contains gifts to me from liberated inmates of Gusen/concentration camp...[end inscription"; at left side, and partially covered by, stapled note, the following is inscribed"[partially visible] From/1st Sgt/35160/Bn Hq./APO 2" in ink; see Remarks regarding remaining inscriptions (not enough room in this field) below stapled note is inscription"To Mrs Thomas Welch/629 Eugene st/Indianapolis 8/Indian" in ink bottom of box inscribed"From/1st Sgt C. C. Welch/35166350/2nd Bn. Hq. 260 Inf./APO 200/c/o P. M N. Y. N. Y./To Mrs T. Welch/629 Eugene st/Indianapolis 8/Indian" in colored pencil or crayon
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overall: Height: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 7.990 inches (20.295 cm)
Retreived by Cecil Welch, 1945, Gusen concentration camp.
Box removed postwar from Gusen concentration camp in Austria