Correspondence regarding the donation of a piece of tattooed human skin to The Wiener Library. According to the donor, who had obtained it by the minister of justice of Luxemburg in 1945, the piece was one of four items used by a Ms. Koch to produce a lampshade in Dachau concentration camp.
Correspondence with Alexander, Hanns
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- Dates of Creation10/05/1960 - 11/05/1960
- Language of MaterialEnglish
- Physical Description2 letters
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Hanns Alexander (1917-2006) was a British merchant of Jewish-German descent. His family had fled to England in the mid-1930s. With the beginning of the war Hanns joined the Royal Army. As a member of its War Crimes Investigation Team he tracked down and arrested Gustav Simon (1945) as well as Rudolf Höss (1946). Later Alexander worked as a banker in London. See Harding, Th., http://wiener.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/RecordView/Index/63976, London, William Heinemann, 2013.
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