Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of drawings created by Peretz Chorshati in the 1990s about his experiences as a soldier, forced laborer, and refugee in Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and Poland during the Holocaust, and his voyage to and detention in Palestine after the Holocaust.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Peretz Chorshati.
Browse 19 Items In This Collection
Autobiographical ink wash drawing by a Polish refugee of 2 men reviewing a military uniform
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.1
depiction: Warsaw (Poland)
depiction: 1945 October
Autobiographical ink drawing of 6 refugees trekking through the snow at night
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.2
depiction: border crossing; Czechoslovakia
depiction: 1945 November
Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of a uniformed man and his Russian interrogator
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.3
depiction: Russian interrogation office; Prague (Czech Republic)
depiction: 1945 November
Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of Polish refugees disguised as Greeks crossing the border
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.4
depiction: border crossing; Poland
depiction: 1945 November
Autobiographical ink drawing of a man sitting in a bathtub under a running shower
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.5
depiction: Warsaw (Poland)
depiction: 1945 August
Autobiographical ink drawing of 2 men in uniform sharing a meal at a train station cafe
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.6
depiction: Warsaw (Poland)
depiction: 1945 August
Autobiographical ink drawing of a uniformed man searching in the rubble of a destroyed city
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.7
depiction: Warsaw ghetto; Warsaw (Poland)
depiction: 1945 August
Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 4 refugees peeling potatoes in a refugee camp
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.8
depiction: UNRAA displaced person's camp; Czechoslovakia
depiction: 1946 March
Autobiographical ink drawing of a group of men and women in a Jewish Brigade truck
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.9
depiction: France
depiction: 1946 June
Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 3 men sharing a bed as a fourth removes his shoes
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.10
depiction: Lyon (France)
depiction: 1946 June
Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 5 refugee men with knapsacks crossing a guarded gangplank
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.11
depiction: Biria (ship); Marseille (France)
depiction: 1946 June
Autobiographical ink drawing of a passenger transfer at sea between two Ma’apilim ships
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.12
depiction: H.S. Biria (Ship); Mediterranean Sea
depiction: 1946 June
Autobiographical ink and pencil drawing of a sinking passenger filled boat
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.13
depiction: Akbel (Ship); Mediterranean Sea
depiction: 1945 August
Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 3 adults and a child disembarking at a guarded port
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.14
depiction: Haifa (Israel)
depiction: 1946 June
Autobiographical ink wash drawing of men, women, and children in a detention camp separated by barbed wire
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.15
depiction: British detention camp (Palestine); Atlit (Israel)
depiction: 1946 June
Autobiographical ink drawing of 2 uniformed men boarding a bus in the countryside
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.16
depiction: Haifa-Tel Aviv road (Palestine); Israel
depiction: 1946 July
Autobiographical ink and pencil drawing of a woman on a storefront sidewalk and a man at an outdoor counter
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.17
depiction: Ramat-Gan (Palestine) (historic); Ramat-Gan (Israel)
depiction: 1946 August
Autobiographical ink drawing of a man walking along a traffic filled highway
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.18
depiction: Ramat-Gan (Palestine) (historic); Ramat-Gan (Israel)
depiction: 1946
Autobiographical ink drawing of an armed man guarding a watertower at night
Object | Accession Number: 2010.447.19
depiction: Givat Shmuel (Palestine) (historic); Givat Shemuel (Israel)
depiction: 1946-1947
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