Blanket
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Blanket : sewn, machine, quilted : yellow-beige
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- object
- Physical Description
- Blanket : sewn, machine, quilted : yellow-beige
- Other Title Information
- Bedding
- Date
- [ca. 1945]
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- 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.
- Accession No.
- 2000.04.01
- Name Access
- Lindeman, Yehudi
- Places
- Auschwitz, Poland, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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