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721. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a woman and 3 children barefoot and hungry on a Łódź Ghetto street
1987.114.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.3
Date:
creation: 1947
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Woman With Three Children
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
722. Watercolor of a female corpse by an inmate given to a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2004.570.1
Date:
creation: 1945 April
depiction: 1945 April
received: 1945 April
Artwork Title:
In Memory of Belsen, April 1945.
…, the commandant Kramer asked: “Why? They are Jews.” Kramer was later tried and executed for crimes against humanity. Philip and the three officers…
723. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a man with a Star of David badge eating in a Łódź Ghetto food hall
1988.182.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.3
Date:
creation: 1947
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Public Kitchen in the Łódź Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
724. Pen and ink drawing by David Friedmann of Jews hauling waste in the Ghetto given postwar to a fellow former resident
1993.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.126.1
Date:
depiction: 1942
creation: 1942
received: 1950 June 16
Artwork Title:
1942 Ghetto Łódź
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
725. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of freed prisoners homeward bound
1988.182.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.4 a-b
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
From Concentration Camps to Liberty
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
726. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.1
Date:
creation: 1997
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
Anguish
… children, for aktions. They were taken to Ponary (Paneriai) forest outside the city and executed. With the exception of Aunt Frieda, all of Judith’s extended…
727. Multi-colored acrylic painting of a ghetto street and buildings painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.3
Date:
creation: 1980
depiction: 1943 September
Title:
The Lonely Street
… children, for aktions. They were taken to Ponary (Paneriai) forest outside the city and executed. With the exception of Aunt Frieda, all of Judith’s extended…
728. Reproduction of a spoon and box smuggled out of Warsaw ghetto with an infant
2003.88.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.88.1 a-b
Date:
creation: 2002
commemoration: 1942 January 05
… Poniatowa were executed as part of Operation Harvest Festival. The Rochman’s, Elżbieta’s maternal grandparents, likely perished in the Warsaw ghetto. Irena…
729. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… risked getting abducted for forced labor or executed in retaliation for the resistance’s killing of German officers. On August 1, 1944, the Polish Home…
730. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of mothers, ordered to undress, who stare at their executioners as they march with their children into a mass grave
1988.182.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.5
Date:
depiction: approximately 1944 August-1944 December
creation: approximately 1946-1948
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mass Grave
…Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of mothers, ordered to undress, who stare at their executioners as they march with their children…
731. Bible
Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.3
Date:
received: 1944
publication/distribution: 1927
Title:
Pamiatka Pierwszej Komunii
Alternate Title:
First Comunion Souvenir
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…
732. 2nd Polish Corps Syrenka patch with the Warsaw Mermaid worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.4
Date:
use: after 1942 December-approximately 1947
…. Katyn refers to the massacre in the Katyn forest near Smolensk where 15,000 Polish Army POWs, including 8300 officers, were executed by the Soviets. This…
733. US war bonds poster of a Rockwell painting depicting a couple checking on their sleeping children
1988.42.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.42.3
Date:
publication/distribution: 1943
Series Title:
Four Freedoms
Buy War Bonds
Artwork Title:
Ours... to Fight for - Freedom From Fear
…Executive departments…
734. Our Lady of Czestochowa holy card received by a young Jewish girl living in hiding as a Catholic in Poland
2002.441.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.441.4
Date:
received: 1943 May
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…
735. Shadow box containing mounted military medals and insignia of a US Army Captain
2006.11.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.46
Date:
received: 1941 December 07
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
736. Framed set of military medals, ribbons and insignia awarded to US Army Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.45, Framed set of military medals, ribbons and insignia, J. George Mitnick Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.45
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
737. Print
Object | Accession Number: 1990.116.16.2
Title:
Struthof Natzweiler
… members by a German military court in Bordeaux. Nearly all were convicted and over twenty were executed in January 1944. Henri was imprisoned in Fresnes…
738. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a starving man eating from a ghetto garbage can
1998.79.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.79.1
Date:
creation: 1964
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Looking for some food in backyards was forbidden!
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
… Ghetto population with tactics such as the public execution by hanging of 18 Jews who tried to escape, a scene witnessed by Friedmann and his family. All…
739. Our Lady of Czestochowa holy card received by a young Jewish girl living in hiding as a Catholic in Poland
2002.441.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.441.2
Date:
received: 1943 May
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…
740. St. Anthony statuette received by a Jewish child who was living in hiding as a Polish Catholic
Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.2 a-c
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…