Sydney Jewish Museum | تفاصيل

Sidebar content	Main content
ادوات السجل العروض	jacket إزالة من الاختيار ضف للاختيار رقم الكائنM2004/025 العنوانjacket الوصفConcentration camp uniform worn by George Grojnowski, born in Radziejow, Poland, in 1927. From 1940, at the age of 13, he was interned in various ghettos and labour camps, under armed guards. In January 1945, at the age of 18, he was transported by cattle truck from Czestochowa Ghetto to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He wore this jacket while interned in Buchenwald. At the liquidation of Buchenwald, George was forced on the death march to Theresienstadt, and was liberated there by the Soviet Army on 9 May 1945. In gratitude, he changed the yellow triangle on his uniform to a red triangle. The identification number that has been sewn onto the jacket is 116530. “… We were requested to get rid of our jackets because it was all with lice…. it was something that I can’t explain, I just felt I had to save something to show where I was…. I just knew I had to do it to be able to – even for myself – to remind myself what I went through in the five years I was interned by the Nazis. I was interned when I was thirteen…. I had the foresight to sort of bring something to prove how we were treated and what it means to me to have my uniform, that I was only a number, but as a number I still survived.” مكان الإنتاجBuchenwald concentration camp التاريخ circa 1940 فترة الإنتاجWorld War II (1939-1945) الموضوعconcentration camps, survivors, Holocaust اسم الكائنconcentration camp clothing الأبعاد width: 480.00 mm height: 620.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr George Grojnowski

رقم الكائنM2004/025

العنوانjacket

الوصفConcentration camp uniform worn by George Grojnowski, born in Radziejow, Poland, in 1927. From 1940, at the age of 13, he was interned in various ghettos and labour camps, under armed guards. In January 1945, at the age of 18, he was transported by cattle truck from Czestochowa Ghetto to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He wore this jacket while interned in Buchenwald. At the liquidation of Buchenwald, George was forced on the death march to Theresienstadt, and was liberated there by the Soviet Army on 9 May 1945. In gratitude, he changed the yellow triangle on his uniform to a red triangle. The identification number that has been sewn onto the jacket is 116530.

“… We were requested to get rid of our jackets because it was all with lice…. it was something that I can’t explain, I just felt I had to save something to show where I was…. I just knew I had to do it to be able to – even for myself – to remind myself what I went through in the five years I was interned by the Nazis. I was interned when I was thirteen…. I had the foresight to sort of bring something to prove how we were treated and what it means to me to have my uniform, that I was only a number, but as a number I still survived.”

مكان الإنتاجBuchenwald concentration camp

التاريخ circa 1940

فترة الإنتاجWorld War II (1939-1945)

الموضوعconcentration camps, survivors, Holocaust

اسم الكائنconcentration camp clothing

الأبعاد

Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr George Grojnowski

Item request date
Expected return date
Destination