Upon arrival, prisoner’s belongings were taken and sent to the warehouses of Auschwitz-Birkenau for sorting. The storage warehouses contained piles of shoes, clothing, eyeglasses, toiletries and other items collected from the new arrivals that would eventually be shipped to Germany. It was the warehouses were called "Canada," because the Poles...
Creator:
Krimstein, Jordan, -2015
Created:
1994
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Tooth key. A straight unplated shaft, connected to the bottom center of a wooden handle; the hand is shaped like an oblique oval with a screw through the top; the bottom of the shaft is the bolster which is screwed in through the bottom; a claw protrudes out of the bolster which allows it to rotate and is held in by a spring catch. This device w...
Created:
1742 - 1765?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.