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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 9515914, member: 649&quot;]Stunning item!</p><p>It seemed odd to me that a concentration camp prisoner would have had access to that amount of quality wood, as well as the extended time and the tools needed, to make such an item <i>during</i> his/her imprisonment. </p><p>Some admittedly quick googling shows a few similar boxes and they often seem to be dated 1945. <a href="https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/cigarette-box-buchenwald.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.yadvashem.org/artifacts/featured/liberation/cigarette-box-buchenwald.html" rel="nofollow">One such box</a> was made by a prisoner after his liberation. Regarding the days after his release, he states:</p><p>&quot;I didn&#039;t have anything to do. I was healthy and I had free time but what interested me? Surrounding Buchenwald were several army camps… and there were no German soldiers in them… this really was interesting. There was a carpentry shop there, and I met a Soviet ex-prisoner who was also a metalworker and he said to me, &#039;Come, Alex, let&#039;s do some carpentry&#039; because we had nothing else to do and it would pass the time… This is a cigarette box that I made… I also found a rubber stamp with which I could stamp the name &#039;Buchenwald&#039; and my prison number on the box.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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