Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau

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AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMENTOS

A CUSTOM DISPLAY BOX CONTAINING MEMENTOS
FROM NAZI KONZENTRATIONSLAGER AUSCHWITZ
(KLA OR AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP)

The name of no other Nazi Konzentrationslager (KL or Concentration Camp) will ever evoke the feelings that Auschwitz-Birkenau does. Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (KLA) was established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the site of an old military barracks in 1940 as a large “mother camp” that could supply prisoner labor for the construction of an enormous IG Farben synthetic rubber and fuel plant nearby. an enormous number perished.

In the vicinity of the small Silesian town of Auschwitz the Germans also established about 40 subcamps of KLA to supply labor to a wide variety of local industries. The main camp or ,,Stammlager” continued to expand throughout World War II. In October 1941 the Nazis began to construct KL Auschwitz II at Birkenau, three kilometers by railway from the main camp.

Auschwitz-Birkenau eventually became the largest of all the Nazi camps in the SS system of concentration camps and is today regarded as the most notorious. It is probably the most recognizable in photographs because of the unique railway entrance running through the Jourhaus and the publicity it received in the Steven Spielberg film “Schindler’s List”. Historians and others will always debate the number of prisoners who died at Birkenau and the method by which they died. No one will ever question the brutal conditions under which the prisoners lived or the fact an enormous number perished.

This is a very done 1-5/8 x 8-1/4 x 14-1/2 inch custom made display case containing three exceptional mementos of the infamous Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (KLA or Auschwitz Concentration Camp).

Each piece was acquired from construction personnel at Auschwitz II Birkenau in October 1999 when the former camp was being renovated to accommodate greatly increased attendance, and dumpsters full of original Third Reich era material were being hauled away.

The three items in this display are:

A large 20 x 150 x 215 mm (1 x 5-7/8 x 8-1/2 inch) very heavy corner piece of brown ceramic tile base which was installed on the wall where it meets the floor in the washroom of a barracks.
One half of a white ceramic electrical insulator from the camp fence next to the Jourhaus.
A large fragment of the bottom of a Waffen-SS VICTORIA porcelain plate or bowl from the china service of the Concentration Camp staff. A portion of the word VICTORIA and the entire word Waffen-SS (runes) is still visible.

The cover of the box has a 2 x 2-3/4 inch silver metal plaque attached to it bearing the words KLA AUSCHWITZ and in the center a 1 inch diameter black and silver SS emblem. This is a rare opportunity to acquire real material from the most infamous of concentration camps tastefully presented in a compact display that could be used from historical or educational purposes. Heavy, weighs five pounds.

Comes with a Certificate of Authenticity and the color sheet with three photographs shown above.

This KL Auschwitz display is **SOLD**.

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