Caricature of HIAS worker created by Hungarian refugee
- Date
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creation:
1946
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Drawings
- Object Type
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Caricatures (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Anne Gure. In Honor of the Vabalas Family, four people to whom I owe my survival. In Memory of my grandmother Basia Kantorovich and Aunt Cilia and my friend Julia Garfunkel who all perished in the Grosse Aktion [sic], October 28, 1941.
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Record last modified: 2020-06-30 09:23:07
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Also in Anna Gure collection
Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of Anna Gure (Gurvich), who worked with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) in a Munich DP camp (possibly St. Ottilien); one postwar document issued by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria, dated December 5, 1945, stating that she had been a former prisoner at Stutthof; and one Swiss Red Cross document with the results of a chest x-ray. The collection also includes a caricature of a HIAS worker created by a Hungarian refugee.
Anna Gure papers
Document
The collection documents the post-war experiences of Anna Gure (born Anna Gurvich), originally of Kaunas, Lithuania. Documents include a certificate issued by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in Bavaria stating that Anna was a former prisoner at the Stutthof concentration camp and a Swiss Red Cross document regarding the results of a chest x-ray. Photographs include depictions of Anna in her Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) uniform, likely in the Sankt Ottilien displaced persons camp.
