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Drawing of a man in the Kovno ghetto

Object | Accession Number: 1995.89.5

Date: creation: 1943
Geography: creation: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
Language: Yiddish
Classification: Art
Category: Drawings
Object Type: Drawing (lcsh)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Physical Description: Black ink portrait; image of man with close cropped hair, wearing tie, vest, and jacket.
Dimensions: overall: Height: 5.510 inches (13.995 cm) | Width: 4.330 inches (10.998 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink, graphite
Signature: Recto: lower left, "Josef Schlesinger/1943", in ink
Inscription: Verso: inscription in Hebrew, in pencil
Contributor: Artist: Josef Schlesinger
Biography: ."..active in the [Kovno] ghetto and closely associated with [Esther] Lurie was Josef Schlesinger. From the ghetto's first days he sought out the Paint and Sign Workshop, where he designed projects and most likely took part in several clandestine art exhibitions there. Born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1919, Schlesinger began his training at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in 1938. Within the year he and his mother left German-occupied Czechoslovakia for Kovno, where his father managed a textile factory. There he continued his studies at the Arts Institute until his ghetto imprisonment."
[Klein, Dennis B., ed The Hidden History of the Kovno Ghetto. Boston: Bulfinch Press, 1997, p. 169]
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The drawing was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2021-02-10 09:05:02
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn10528

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Scrip issued to women in the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Meal card from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

Work assignment slip from the Kovno ghetto

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Pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Meal coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Ration card from the Kovno ghetto

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Work pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Bakery receipt from the Kovno ghetto

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Pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Ration coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Ration coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression stating that a transcript is authentic from an office in the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the 2nd region of the Jewish ghetto police in the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Police Department of the Kovno ghetto.

Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Police Department of the Kovno ghetto.

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Ink stamp impression from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

Ink stamp impression from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

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Envelope used by an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Ghetto Police in Kovno, Lithuania

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Coupon for potatoes issued in the Kovno ghetto

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Ration coupon from the Kovno ghetto

Ration coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Identification card from the Kovno ghetto

Identification card from the Kovno ghetto

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Identification card from the Kovno ghetto

Identification card from the Kovno ghetto

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Ration coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Receipt for the Paint and Sign Workshop in the Kovno ghetto

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Permit ink stamp impression of the Paint and Sign Workshop of the Altestenrat (Council of Elders) of Kovno the ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the Jewish pharmacy in the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression belonging to the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders) of the Kovno ghetto

Ink stamp impression belonging to the Aeltestenrat (Council of Elders) of the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

Ink stamp impression from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the central office of the Jewish Ghetto Police in Kovno, Lithuania

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Ink stamp impression of the Labor Insertion Office, Division of Specialized Training, in the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression from the Repairs Department of the Ghetto Gemeinde in the Kovno ghetto

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Identification document issued by an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

Identification document issued by an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

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Labor pass from the Kovno ghetto

Labor pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Typewritten inscription of the First Police Precinct of the Kovno ghetto

Typewritten inscription of the First Police Precinct of the Kovno ghetto

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Labor pass from the Kovno ghetto

Labor pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Identity document from the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the Coworker Collective at the Remont-Workshop in the Kovno ghetto

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Typewritten inscription made by an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Reusable movement pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Work identification card from the Kovno ghetto

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Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

Work permit from the Kovno ghetto

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Work identification card from the Kovno ghetto

Work identification card from the Kovno ghetto

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Work identification card from the Kovno ghetto

Work identification card from the Kovno ghetto

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Signature of Zvi Levin, chairman of the Zionist Revisionists in the Kovno ghetto

Signature of Zvi Levin, chairman of the Zionist Revisionists in the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Ghetto Police of the Kovno ghetto

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Certificate from the Kovno ghetto

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Pass from the Kovno ghetto workshops

Pass from the Kovno ghetto workshops

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Identity card from the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression from the Kovno ghetto apothecary

Ink stamp impression from the Kovno ghetto apothecary

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Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Ghetto Police of the Kovno ghetto

Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Ghetto Police of the Kovno ghetto

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Meat coupon from the Kovno ghetto

Meat coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Bread coupon from the Kovno ghetto

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Work pass from the Kovno ghetto

Work pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Pass from the Kovno ghetto

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Ink stamp impression of the Jewish Ghetto Community in Kovno, Lithuania

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Inscription from the Residents Record Office of the Kovno ghetto

Inscription from the Residents Record Office of the Kovno ghetto

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Inscription from the Workshops Department of the Kovno ghetto

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Inscription from the Labor Office of the Kovno ghetto

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Typewritten inscription from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto

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