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Drawing

Object | Accession Number: 1996.69.1

Drawing created by Bil Freier

Artwork Title
Drawing of a Refugee Girl
Classification
Art
Category
Drawings
Object Type
Ink drawings (tgm)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hans Cahnmann

About This Object

Dimensions
overall: Height: 18.250 inches (46.355 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)
pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm)
Materials
overall : paper, ink
Contributor
Artist: Bill Spira
Biography
Bill Spira, a cartoonist, was also known as Bil Freier. He was originally from Austria. During the Holocaust he forged passports for the Emergency Rescue Committee. Despite Varian Fry's (an American ERC representative) intervention, he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz. He survived the camp.

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Hans Cahnmann.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use

 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:23:22
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Hans Cahnmann papers

Document

Contains materials related to the efforts of Hans Julius Cahnmann to escape Europe via Mareille. Includes an affidavit in lieu of passport prepared by American State Department official Hiram Bingham, Jr. in the Marseille consulate.

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Document

Collection of original documents and letters and copies of documents and letters relating to the Cahnmann family's attempts to get Sigwart and Hedwig Cahnmann [Hans Cahnmann's parents] and Clementine Kramer [donor's aunt] out of Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

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