Blanket
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- Held by
- Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
- Dates
- [ca. 1945] (indexed as 1945)
- Level
- item
- Scope & content
- Plain with parallel sitches of the same color as the fabric. Quilted blanket issued at Auschwitz concentration camp. Narrative: Marcus (Max) Appelboom was born in Amsterdam (Netherlands) in 1898. He was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1943 and from there to Auschwitz concentration camp. The blanket accompanied him from Auschwitz through several other places, including on a death march, and he brought it back to the Netherlands with him after liberation. He was a tailor and built up a successful business in Antwerp (Belgium) after the war. He died in 1963 in Antwerp.
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- Extent
- Blanket : sewn, machine, quilted : yellow-beige
- Genre / form
- object
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- Object / artifact
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- Harvested
- 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot
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- imageOpen original at source ↗2000-04-01.jpg