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1. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner
CM_1995.59.1_001 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.59.1
Date:
depiction: 1944 September 20-approximately 1950
…Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner…
2. Sketches of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Esther Lurie
1995.A.0989.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1965
depiction: 1944
Series Title:
Jewesses in Slavery
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Masha Rolnik, Leibisch concentration camp, 1944
…Sketches of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Esther Lurie…
3. Abstract bronze statue of a concentration camp inmate made by a Czech Jewish survivor
2003.397.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.397.1
Date:
commemoration: 1944 December-1945 May
creation: 2002
Artwork Title:
Survivor
…Abstract bronze statue of a concentration camp inmate made by a Czech Jewish survivor…
4. Etching by Walter Spitzer of a dog attacking fallen concentration camp prisoners in an arena
2008.340.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.8
Date:
depiction: 1943 June-1945 April
creation: 1955
Artwork Title:
GAMES IN THE ARENA
…Etching by Walter Spitzer of a dog attacking fallen concentration camp prisoners in an arena…
5. Etching by Walter Spitzer of concentration camp inmates begging, digging in a dumpster, and hauling corpses
2008.340.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.340.9
Date:
depiction: 1943 June-1945 April
creation: 1955
Artwork Title:
EVEN THE PEELINGS
…Etching by Walter Spitzer of concentration camp inmates begging, digging in a dumpster, and hauling corpses…
6. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother helping her sick son in a concentration camp
1987.114.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.1
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: approximately 1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with sick son in a camp
Alternate Title:
In the concentration camp
…Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother helping her sick son in a concentration camp…
7. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures
1998.80.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.1
Date:
creation: 1964 January 23
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Electrocution by Choice
…Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures…
8. Framed portrait of a woman owned by an American internee
2018.426.8 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.8 a-c
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
9. Drawing of her hiding place by a Jewish teenager
2007.521.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-1944
Artwork Title:
Hiding place on a Serbian farm, 1941-1944
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
10. Etched print created by David Friedman of a man kneeling in despair a few seconds before execution
1998.80.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.2
Date:
creation: 1967
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Jew Crying Out in Fear in a Concentration Camp
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
11. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a large group of Jews living in an attic in the Łódź Ghetto
1987.114.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.2
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
A Garrett to Live in was a Luxurious Apartment
Alternate Title:
A garret in the Lodzer Ghetto
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
12. 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
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
13. Drawing of a man at a spinning wheel done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.2
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… and 9, Abraham was transported to one of the Wüste complex of subcamps in the Natzweiler concentration camp system. The main Natzweiler camp located in…
14. Drawing of her mother's shoes by a Jewish teenager in hiding
2007.521.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Mother's Shoes, 1942-1944
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
15. Autobiographical drawing by David Friedmann of Jewish prisoners on their way to bury a shot comrade
1988.173.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.2
Date:
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
creation: 1945
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Burying a Shot Comrade
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
16. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
1988.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
Date:
creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with Two Children
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
17. Fantasy sketch of a figure running to a tree by a Jewish teen in hiding
2007.521.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.12
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Imaginary Figure in Fight, 1941-1944
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
18. Autobiographical painting by David Friedman of a woman in a brown dress resting on a bed
1987.114.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.4
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Sleeping Woman
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
19. Jo Spier watercolor of people dancing through a gate and given to another inmate
2003.361.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.361.6
Date:
creation: 1944 January 26
received: approximately 1944 January 26
Artwork Title:
L'Shana Haba a' B'yerushalayim
Alternate Title:
Next Year in Jerusalem
… chief of Reich Security Main Office department IV B 4 (Jews). was responsible for organizing the mass deportations of Jews to concentration camps and…
20. Drawing of a yellow field done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.1
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… and 9, Abraham was transported to one of the Wüste complex of subcamps in the Natzweiler concentration camp system. The main Natzweiler camp located in…