Oceanside woman finds coat from Nazi concentration camp at tag sale

An Oceanside woman found a striped prisoner's jacket from the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau at a tag sale for $2. "My face turned white and my heart started pounding, and I knew what was sitting

News 12 Staff

Nov 23, 2016, 8:32 AM

Updated 2,880 days ago

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An Oceanside woman found a striped prisoner's jacket from the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau at a tag sale for $2.
"My face turned white and my heart started pounding, and I knew what was sitting in that closet," says Jillian Eisman, who bought the blue and gray jacket. "It was a concentration camp jacket, a uniform that a prisoner would have worn."
Eisman says Holocaust-related artifacts are rare, clothing especially. After buying the coat, she did some research and says she discovered it belonged to a man named Benzion Peresecki.
"He's from Lithuania, and then he was taken to Kaufering, which is a branch of Dachau," Eisman says. "He was there for about a year and then liberated."
Eisman donated Peresecki's jacket to the Kupferberg Holocaust Center in New York City.