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Pink embroidered dress made from flour sacks in Athens after liberation

Object | Accession Number: 2003.144.2
2003.144.2 front Pink embroidered dress made from flour sacks in Athens after liberation Click to enlarge

Sabbath dress made by Dora Levy and her mother from flour sacks in wartime Athens, Greece. Sarina, Dora's mother, dyed the cloth red; Dora Levy cut the fabric and sewed a shirt for her mother and a dress for herself. Dora Levy also embroidered the design on the dress pockets. Because of the shortage of clothing during the civil war in Greece, flour sacks were the only available source of fabric.

Date
use:  1944-1945
Geography
use: Greece
Classification
Clothing and Dress
Category
Women's clothing
Object Type
Dresses (lcsh)
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dora Saltiel

About This Object

Physical Description
Pink short-sleeved, collared bodice attached to knee-length pink skirt; three button holes on bodice at center; two pockets of blue embroidered floral design sewn to bodice near collar; two pockets of blue embroidered floral design sewn to skirt near waist; two pleats sewn into skirt at front center
Dimensions
overall: Height: 38.880 inches (98.755 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm)
Materials
overall : cloth
Contributor
Subject: Dora Saltiel
Biography
Dora Levy was born on January 3, 1928, to Sarina (Perahia) and Salomon Izhak Levy. She was raised in Salonika (Thessalonikē), Greece. In 1942, the Levy family was forced to relocate to one of the ghettos that the Germans had established in Salonika. After being warned of the impending deportations to Auschwitz, the Levys went into hiding in Athens in 1943. They remained there until 1946 when they were finally able to return to Salonika. In 1947, Dora married Salomon Saltiel, a childhood friend who had been a prisoner of war during World War II. The couple emigrated to the United States in 1955.

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Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The dress was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Dora Levy Saltiel.
Funding Note
The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Rights and Restrictions

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

 
Record last modified: 2023-09-15 10:43:04
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