Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of pen and ink drawings, etchings, and watercolors created by Esther Lurie during the Holocaust about her experiences in the Kovno Ghetto in German occupied Lithuania in the years 1941, 1942, 1943.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Esther Lurie.
Browse 12 Items In This Collection
Etching by Esther Lurie of the expulsion to the camps from the ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.1
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1943
Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.2
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1943
Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.3
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1942
Esther Lurie sketch of the barbed wire fence and a gate in Kovno Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.4
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Esther Lurie sketch of people entering the main gate to the Kovno Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.5
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1943
Drawing by Esther Lurie of the path behind the ghetto leading to the Ninth Fort
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.6
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1942
Drawing by Esther Lurie of the Vilijampole neighborhood in Kovno Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.7
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1942
Esther Lurie watercolor of the barbed wire fence, Kovno Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.8
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Drawing by Esther Lurie of the Yad Vashem Memorial Shrine
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.9
depiction: Yad Vashem; Jerusalem
Ghetto panorama and two buldings drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.10
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: approximately 1943
Drawing by Esther Lurie of a panoramic view of daily life in the Kovno ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.11
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: approximately 1943
Drawing by Esther Lurie of a panoramic view of daily life in the Kovno ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.12
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: approximately 1943
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- 2022-07-28 18:26:38
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