Cigarette lighter made in ORT workshop at the Landsberg DP camp
Gift of Harry Bagon
Id no. 652.88, Other
ORT is a vocational training organization founded in 1880 in Russia. It now (2013) operates worldwide. After the Holocaust, ORT trained tens of thousands of survivors including in Displaced Persons camps.
A student of an ORT workshop made this lighter as a gift to Harry Bagon, a US GI and Sanitation Commissioner at the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp. Bagon also taught English classes there.
A student of an ORT workshop made this lighter as a gift to Harry Bagon, a US GI and Sanitation Commissioner at the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp. Bagon also taught English classes there.
