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1. Two-sided drawing of women awaiting transport and at Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 1940 May-1940 December
Series Title:
Alencon, Departement de l'Orne - May 1940
Artwork Title:
a. Waiting for Deportation (Version I)
b. Women Stripping to Wash
…. Drawing in pencil on wove paper of three women undressing. They are lined up along a wall facing away from each other, most with their backs to the viewer…
2. Ink drawing of female internee reading a book by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.5
Date:
creation: 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Barracks Interior
… house coat, heeled shoes, and glasses, with her hair wrapped in a turban. Clothes are hanging on the walls It is drawn with clean lines and gray ink wash…
3. Sketch of women in their barracks by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.10
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Barracks Interior with Bread & Two Bottles I
… hands at her face, with a woman in front laying and reading a book. In the background is a seated woman and clothes hanging on the wall. Figures in the…
4. Drawing of people sitting on a bench by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.17
Date:
creation: approximately 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Group of Women with Visitor
… outside wall of a large building next to an open doorway with the numeral 2 on the wall above it. A small figure is visible through the opening. The women…
5. Drawing of woman reading a book on a mattress (Version II) by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.18
Date:
creation: approximately 1940 June-1940 December
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Woman on Straw Sack Reading II
…, with the wall, dress, and mattress painted with a dry brush. It is initialed and dated in the lower left. There is brown discoloration near the center…
6. Drawing of women sitting inside barracks by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.33
Date:
creation: approximately 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Interior of Women's Barracks
…Black ink drawing on paper depicting women sitting along the walls on the floor in their barracks. There are two women in the foreground. The woman…
7. Drawing of people outside the barracks by an inmate at Gurs internment camp
1988.1.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.34
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
Ruelle dans l'ilot
Alternate Title:
Path between the Barracks
… brimmed hat walks between them. In the background, men are squatted while a uniformed guard is approaching from the right. The barracks with sloped walls…
8. Two-sided drawing of women in barracks and woman doubled over by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.37 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.37 a-b
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940
Artwork Title:
a. The all-important stove in my barrack
b. Woman doubled up on her straw sack
…a. Black ink drawing on paper depicting a scene in a women’s barracks with women gathered on beds perpendicular to and lining the walls on both sides…
9. Two-sided drawing of bunk space and two men by by a German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.45
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940: Spanish Refugees Manning the Camp’s Maintenance Teams
Artwork Title:
Injured Spanish Refugees
…. Along the walls above the bed are shelves with bottles, boxes, hats, and shoes neatly organized, two folded towels, and a long patterned robe hanging…
10. Drawing of men sawing wood outdoors by a German Jewish internee
1988.1.48 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.48
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs – 1940: Spanish Refugees Manning the Camp’s Maintenance Teams
Artwork Title:
Spanish Maintenance Detail at Work
… background along the left is a row of long, pitched roof buildings, with angled walls at the bottom and square windows with open flaps at the top. The figures…
11. Drawing of five women inside the barracks by a German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.62
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs - 1940
Artwork Title:
Barracks Interior with Bread & Two Bottles (Version II)
… of her is a small, round table with a tablecloth, two bottles, and some food on top. The background shows a slatted wall with clotheslines in the…
12. Drawing of five women doing laundry by a German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1988.1.63
Date:
creation: 1940
Series Title:
Camp de Gurs - 1940
Artwork Title:
Women Doing Their Laundry
…Black ink sketch on cream-colored paper of a line of five women in right profile washing clothes. On the left is a wall with vertical slats and two…
13. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
…Antisemitic propaganda flyer found pinned to a wall and acquired by Rudy Appel in wartime France. The image depicts a louse-like caricature of a Jew…
14. Oral history interview with Fred Raymes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.105 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0105
Date:
interview: 1992 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … was very rare and many of boys would wipe their behind by just cleaning their finger on the wall. And one of the jobs that we had was to clean the walls…
15. Oral history interview with Sonja Samson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.121 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0121
Date:
interview: 1985 June 03
interview: 1985 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
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 … primary source, and it may contain errors in spelling or accuracy. over the wall. That is, the boarding school-- I described that earlier-- was an old…
16. Pencil drawing of the women’s latrine at an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.2
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…, two-tiered building with a high platform, depicted on the diagonal. A sloped roof covers the exposed, upper portion of the partial walls on the back and…
17. Drawing of the hygiene barrack at an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.3
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
… the left is another barrack, with small, rectangular windows above the sloped walls. The foreground shows bare earth shaded in brown and black tones…
18. Drawing of the interior of an internment camp barrack created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.5
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
… from the top and angling to the right. Visible behind the stove, on the far wall, is a doorway. A half-inch wide border surrounds the image, and the…
19. Colored drawing of the internment camp laundry shed created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.9
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
… end. The walls of the building are colored in yellow, have an open window on the left end, and green grass at the base. The foreground is loosely…
20. Pencil drawing of the men’s latrines at an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.16
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…, two-tiered building with a high platform, depicted on the diagonal. A sloped roof covers the exposed, upper portion of the partial walls on the back and…