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Pink embroidered dress made from flour sacks in Athens after liberation

Object | Accession Number: 2003.144.2

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    Pink embroidered dress made from flour sacks in Athens after liberation
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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    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
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dora Saltiel
    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.

    Physical Details

    Classification
    Clothing and Dress
    Category
    Women's clothing
    Object Type
    Dresses (lcsh)
    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

    Rights & Restrictions

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

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    Administrative Notes

    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.
    Record last modified:
    2024-10-03 13:16:24
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