Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Colorful, child-sized, toy horse and cart with pedals used by Heskel and Miriam Kagan (later Lieber) in Rome, Italy, where their parents, Berl and Raja settled, temporarily, after surviving the Holocaust in Lithuania. The cart was used by Heskel and Miriam in Italy and then, when the family immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1950, aboard the USS Hersey, they brought it with them.
- Date
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use:
approximately 1948-approximately 1955
- Geography
-
use:
Rome (Italy)
use: United States
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Kagan Lieber.
- Contributor
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Subject:
Miriam Lieber
Physical Details
- Classification
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Toys
- Category
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Wooden toys
- Object Type
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Wooden toys (lcsh)
- Genre/Form
- Toys
- Physical Description
- a: A child-sized, bright red, rectangular, wooden, toy cart with a bench seat and two spoked wheels connected to a prancing, brown horse supported by a smaller, spoked wheel. The horse is covered with painted cloth and has a stylized bridle, possibly leather, fixed to its body with metal rivets. There are two, rectangular metal bracket-style pedals in the footwell, which connect to the main axel and allow a rider to propel the cart by peddling. Thin, checked, cloth reins are connected to a T-shaped bar extending from the horse’s back. The front right hoof (b) is broken, and the horse’s ears are missing.
b: The broken, black hoof and partial white patch from the front, right foreleg of a wooden, toy horse pulling a child-sized cart (a). - Dimensions
- a: Height: 24.409 inches (61.999 cm) | Width: 16.142 inches (41.001 cm) | Depth: 53.937 inches (137 cm)
- Materials
- a : wood, paint, metal, cloth
b : wood, paint, metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, there are no known copyright restrictions on the material(s) in this collection, or the material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Displaced persons.
- Geographic Name
- Rome (Italy) Lithuania.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The toy horse and carriage were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Miriam Kagan Lieber.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-12-21 14:50:01
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn739918
Also in Miriam Lieber collection
The collection consists of a child-size, toy horse and carriage and photographs of children with the toy and a group of men relating to the experiences of Miriam (later Lieber) and Heskel Kagan and their parents, Raja and Berl Kagan, in Lithuania during the Holocaust, and in Italy after World War II.
Date: 1948
Miriam Kagan Lieber Papers
Document
The papers include three black-and-white photographs, a mixture of original and copies, of Heskel and Miriam Kagan in a toy carriage pulled by a horse. Their mother, Raja Kagan, is also in one of the photos, and she and their father, Berl Kagan, survived the Holocaust in Lithuania. They were living, temporarily, in Rome, Italy, following the war when Heskel (b. 1945) and Miriam (b. 1948) were born. There are also two, black-and-white photographs depicting Berl as part of a group of eight Jewish men, in Rome, Italy.
