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1. Esther Lurie sketch of the barbed wire fence and a gate in Kovno Ghetto

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: A Living Witness
Artwork Title:: Barbed Wire Fence and One of the Ghetto Gates, Kovno, 1941

2. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor

1997.30.2 front

Date:: issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September

3. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor

1997.30.1 front

Date:: issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September

4. Esther Lurie watercolor of the barbed wire fence, Kovno Ghetto

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: A Living Witness
Artwork Title:: Barbed Wire Fence and Ghetto Gate and Road, Kovno, 1941

5. Star of David membership pin owned by a former concentration camp inmate

1993.90.4 front

Date:: commemoration: 1939-1945

6. Sketch of people digging near a house by Esther Lurie

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: Living Testimony
Artwork Title:: Sketch, Raiding a Potato Field, Kovno Ghetto

7. Star of David badge with Jude worn by a German Jewish man

1995.78.10 front

Date:: use: 1941 September-1943 May

8. Eleven preparatory figure sketches by Esther Lurie

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: Living Testimony
Artwork Title:: 11 Figures Sketches, Raiding a Potato Field, Kovno Ghetto

9. Sketch of a worker carrying a shovel drawn by Esther Lurie

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Artwork Title:: Laborer with a Shovel, Kovno Ghetto 1941, recreation 1957

10. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto

1988.173.3 front

Date:: creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:: Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:: Mother with Two Children

11. Portrait print by Esther Lurie of a young woman wearing a plaid dress with two Star of David badges

2013.447.1 front

Date:: depiction: 1941
Artwork Title:: Kovno Ghetto 1941
Alternate Title:: Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges
Diukan na’arah ‘im shnei tla’im tsehubim

12. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage

1988.173.4 front

Date:: creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:: Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:: Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:: 2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto

13. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto

1988.173.1 front

Date:: creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:: Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:: Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:: Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump

14. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, owned by a Polish Jewish internee

2013.223.2 front

Date:: issue: 1940 May 15
received: after 1940 May-before 1944 August

15. Drawing of people digging for potatoes by Esther Lurie

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: Living Testimony
Artwork Title:: Raiding a Potato Field, Kovno Ghetto,

16. Preparatory sketch of figures working in a field by Esther Lurie

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: Living Testimony
Artwork Title:: Preparatory sketch for Raiding a Potato Field, Kovno Ghetto, 1941

17. Ten preparatory figure sketches by Esther Lurie

Date:: creation: 1957
depiction: 1941
Series Title:: Living Testimony
Artwork Title:: 10 Figures Sketches, Raiding a Potato Field, Kovno Ghetto

18. Star of David badge with Jude owned by Czech Jewish concentration camp prisoners

1989.303.54 front

Date:: use: after 1941 September

19. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman

2018.31.2 front

Date:: issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21

20. Star of David badge with Jude owned by Czech Jewish concentration camp prisoners

1989.303.55 front

Date:: use: after 1941 September

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