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Subject: Suits (Clothing) Subject: Suits (Clothing) Subject: Suits (Clothing) Subject: Suits (Clothing) Subject: Suits (Clothing) Subject: Suits (Clothing) Subject: Suits (Clothing) Date: 1940 Date: 1945 Content Type: Image Collection: Digital Dress Collection Collection: The Henry Ford Historic Costume Collection-
Concentration Camp Uniform, about 1940-1945
Worn by Jan Kamienski, a Polish Catholic who was seized by the Germans inApril, 1940 in Poznan, Poland and set to Dachau, then to Mauthausen, then back to Dachau.He spent a little over five years in a concentration camp when he was liberated by the GIs.He spoke and read German and Polish and was apparently used as a translator in the camps.He was very ill during his internment but managed to survive.He came to Detroit shortly after the war where he met and married the donor of the uniform.He die…