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[es-ES]Record tools[es-ES] [es-ES]Displays[es-ES]	Barbed wire collected from Auschwitz Remove from selection Add to selection Número del objetoM1991/009:001 TítuloBarbed wire collected from Auschwitz DescripciónElectrified barbed-wire fences surrounding the camps made escape for prisoners almost impossible. This small length of barbed wire was picked up as a souvenir during a post-war visit to Auschwitz by Mark Spigelman who accompanied his son and a group of Habonim students on a tour of Poland in 1990 - the first Australian Zionist youth movement to visit. Born in Poland in November 1940, Spigelman was asked to act as a guide for the group. In 1943 he and his parents were in a work camp in Srodula. To avoid being deported to a concentration camp, they constructed a bunker in a shoe workhouse and survived the war in the bunker. The family left Poland in 1949 on false passports when he was eight years old. Lugar de producciónAuschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp Periodo de producciónWorld War II (1939-1945) Temaconcentration camps Nombre del objetobarbed wire Materialwire Dimensiones whole length: 200.00 mm Línea de créditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr. Mark Spigelman

Número del objetoM1991/009:001

TítuloBarbed wire collected from Auschwitz

DescripciónElectrified barbed-wire fences surrounding the camps made escape for prisoners almost impossible. This small length of barbed wire was picked up as a souvenir during a post-war visit to Auschwitz by Mark Spigelman who accompanied his son and a group of Habonim students on a tour of Poland in 1990 - the first Australian Zionist youth movement to visit.

Born in Poland in November 1940, Spigelman was asked to act as a guide for the group. In 1943 he and his parents were in a work camp in Srodula. To avoid being deported to a concentration camp, they constructed a bunker in a shoe workhouse and survived the war in the bunker. The family left Poland in 1949 on false passports when he was eight years old.

Lugar de producciónAuschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp

Periodo de producciónWorld War II (1939-1945)

Temaconcentration camps

Nombre del objetobarbed wire

Materialwire

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Línea de créditoSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Dr. Mark Spigelman

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