Metal key with Star of David-handle with applied silver plaques. Engraved: “Presented at the Official Opening of the Jewish Convalescent Home, Bad Harzburg, January 26th, 1947 - 117 Jewish Relief Unit, B.A.O.R.” 1.25 x 5 inches.

POST-HOLOCAUST ERA PRESENTATION KEY.

1947

The Jewish Relief Unit (the British equivalent of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee) was formally under the command of the British Armed Forces in Germany and Unit 117 was overseen by the British Army of the Rhine (B.A.O.R). For details regarding the Jewish Convalescent Home in Bad Harzburg see H. Lavsky, New Beginnings: Holocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany (2004) p. 97.