Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Wardrobe used to hide a Jewish child during the Holocaust
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, gift of the Nowak Family through the Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund
Physical Details
- Classification
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Furnishings and Furniture
- Category
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Furniture
- Object Type
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Wardrobes (case furniture) (aat)
- Physical Description
- Rectangular form with upper and lower sections; upper section contains three doors with mirror set in middle door; lower section contains three drawers with metal handles
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 88.670 inches (225.222 cm) | Width: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm) | Depth: 27.380 inches (69.545 cm)
- Materials
- overall : wood, glass, metal
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The wardrobe was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family Acquisition Fund.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:28:28
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513160
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The collection consists of a wardrobe and folding chair used to hide a Jewish child during the Holocaust.
Date: approximately 1945
Folding chair used by hidden child
Object
Folding chair used to hide a Jewish child during the Holocaust.
