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1. 2-sided watercolor of an imagined village bombing created by Simon Jeruchim while in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2001.328.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1944 June
depiction: 1944 June 06
Artwork Title:
Souvenir au 6 Juin 1944 (front)
Mosquito (reverse)
Alternate Title:
Memory of June 6, 1944 (front)
… orphanage in Cailly-sur-Eure. The children lived in several orphanages; in each, Simon decorated the walls with Hebrew songs and murals. Simon learned about…
2. 10th Anniversary poster for the Liberation of Mauthausen
1990.305.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.305.5
Date:
commemoration: 1945 May 05
publication/distribution: approximately 1954 April 11
Artwork Title:
10eme anniversaire de la libération des camps hitlériens Mauthausen
Alternate Title:
10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Hitler’s Mauthausen Camp
… Rifle Wall] front, bottom row, right, black ink : Sauvés au / dernier / moment [saved at the last moment] front, bottom row, right, black ink : Un des…
3. 1918 bank note brought to the United States by a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany
2014.468.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.468.2
Date:
issue: 1918 September 04-1920 January
… while holding a sword and a shield. They are seated on a low, dark green wall with the numeric denomination printed at each end with Russian text and…
4. Abstract painting of a falling head by a former hidden child expressing her grief at the loss of her father in the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.1
Date:
creation: 1987
commemoration: 1943 January
Artwork Title:
My father - one of six million
…, Sophia hid, without her father, in a basement with strangers. They hid behind a dividing wall made of thick green bottles. Sophia could see the flashlights…
5. Abstract painting of a prison camp with ghostlike figures and a hanging created postwar by a former inmate
2007.513.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.513.1
Date:
creation: approximately 2004
Artwork Title:
What is Left
… Jewish youth. At the age of 14, Motke experienced the brutality firsthand, when he was marched to the city square and forced to stand against a wall for…
6. Advertising poster for a theatrical production of Oliver Twist
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.635
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880-1908
Artwork Title:
Oliver Twist
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… a brick wall, shows a man with a large nose, thick eyebrows and a beard. He is wearing a red kerchief around his head, a long green coat, and brown…
7. Advertising poster for a theatrical production of Oliver Twist
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.95
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1880-1908
Artwork Title:
Oliver Twist
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… a brick wall, shows a man with a large nose, thick eyebrows and a beard. He is wearing a red kerchief around his head, a long green coat, and brown…
8. Air Raid, a semi-abstract steel sculpture resembling a bombed building based upon childhood memories of WWII in Budapest
2012.338.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.338.6
Date:
creation: 2000
Series Title:
The War Series
Artwork Title:
Air Raid
…, one below the other, nearly cover the top of the enclosure. The lower, thinner panel is fused to the back edge of the silver-colored wall panel and…
9. Albert Dov Sigal gouache painting of a yeshiva class with a teacher preparing to punish 1 terrified boy with a comically long belt as 3 watch
1992.113.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.113.16
Date:
creation: 1948-1958
Artwork Title:
Malemend
… towards the other boy. In the left background is a stand with an open book and 2 lit candles. The back wall has a large, arched, open doorway with stained…
10. Albert Dov Sigal monochrome sepia etching of people in a detention camp tent created from a drawing done during his imprisonment
1990.242.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.242.6
Date:
creation: 1948
depiction: 1947 December
Artwork Title:
Cyprus Detention Camp - Tents
… woman in headscarf and robe, holding a baby. There is an open tent directly behind her and, spanning the background are many pointed tent tops and a wall…
11. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor sketch of a bearded man leading one group of people through a parted sea while others float away
1992.113.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.113.12
Date:
creation: 1948-1958
Artwork Title:
Crossing the Red Sea
… surrounded on 3 sides by blue green walls of water. The water wall closes at the pointed tip of the triangle; a dot of blue wax is adhered at this point. The…
12. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor sketch of a boy in tallit and tefillin receiving religious instruction with a rough pencil sketch on the reverse
1992.113.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.113.1
Date:
creation: 1948-1958
Artwork Title:
Preparation for Bar Mitzvah
… both are focused on its contents. They are seated in a home interior with light blue walls with 2 indistinct pictures indicated by orange rectangles on…
13. Albert Dov Sigal woodcut richly colored in white and golden browns featuring a woman in a heavy white robe presenting gifts to a king
1992.113.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.113.4
Date:
creation: 1964
Artwork Title:
Queen Sheba in Front of Solomon
… the veiled central figure. A gold and brown robed servant stands behind him; and there are several robed figures in a line in the background. The wall…
14. Alfred Meakin plate with an image of Fagin
2016.184.85 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.85
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1920-approximately 1939
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… a cracked wall. In the lower, right section of the image is a small wooden box with a candle sitting on it. The first few letters of the artist’s name…
15. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees
1997.102.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.102.1
Date:
acquired: 1946
… in a wall, rolled down a ravine, and escaped into the woods. They lived on snow and stolen potatoes in the woods for over a week, when they were…
16. Anti-American poster with a quote from Adolf Hitler prophesizing the extermination of the Jews
1990.333.59 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.59
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942 October 28-1942 November 03
Title:
Das Lachen wird ihnen vergehen!!!
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
They'll lose their laughter
Word of the Week
… part of their propaganda campaign, the Nazis created the Word of the Week Series of posters (also referred to as Wandzeitung, or wall newspapers), which…
17. Anti-American poster with fork tongued Eleanor Roosevelt in Star of David earrings
2016.184.360 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.360
Date:
creation: 1940-1945
Title:
Notizie da Roma ve le Manda la Federazione Fascista dell'Urbe
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… Editor: Sisto Favre. Wall newspaper No. 1. Postal subscription. Ordinary paper.] front, bottom, black ink : STABILIMENTO TIPOGRAFICO DELLA U…
18. Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper
1991.182.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.182.28
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 October 27
Series Title:
28 in a series of 31
Subtitle:
The New Gods
…Image of a gentleman dressed in clergy robes, in a state of panic; running on the other side of what appears to be a wall or doorway, men dressed in…
19. Antisemitic caricature of a Dreyfus supporter
2016.184.645 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.645
Date:
publication: 1899-1900
Series Title:
Musee des Horreurs
Artwork Title:
No. 32, Le Traitre Philipp!
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… nailed to a stone wall. He has a bald crown, black hair, and short, curled black sidelocks in front of small, furry ears with pointed tips. His forehead is…
20. Antisemitic cartoon making fun of a Jewish storeowner and his frequent fire sales
2016.184.520 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.520
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1895
Artwork Title:
Time-Tried And Fire-Tested
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…, top right, sign on wall, black ink : FIRE / SALE NOW / ON front, within image, top right, sign on luggage, black ink : 4.98…