Overview
- Brief Narrative
- The woodcut was received by Joseph Krakower and Cecile Krakower from Aron (Armand) Krakower who was interned in Pithiviers internment camp in France.
- Artwork Title
- Chez les heberges au Camp de Pithiviers
- Date
-
creation:
1941 May 14
- Geography
-
creation:
Pithiviers (Concentration camp);
Pithiviers (France)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joel Kaye
- Contributor
-
Artist:
Aron Krakower
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Classification
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Art
- Category
-
Prints
- Object Type
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Wood-engraving (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Black and white woodcut print with image of men performing various labor-related tasks, numbered barracks along top and barbed wire forming border of image. Hand-inscribed center reads, "Chez les heberges au camp de Pithiviers, Aron Krakower, W21e 807, Bar 13, 14 Mai 1941."
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Corporate Name
- Pithiviers (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The woodcut was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Joel Kaye, the son of Cecile Krakower, and Aron (Armand) Krakower.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:28:30
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513694
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Also in Joel Kaye collection
The collection consists of photographs as well as two letters received by Joseph Krakower and Cecile Krakower from Aron (Armand) Krakower who was interned in Pithiviers internment camp in France. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: 1941-1942
Joel Kaye papers
Document
Consists of three black and white photographs with inscriptions written in ink: vintage portrait image of a family in Szcezekociny, Poland, dated 1933, the couple at the center is Cecile and Aron Krakower (donor's parents); a copy of a vintage image of Cecile and Aron Krakower walking along a path, dated circa 1930, Poland; and a vintage portrait of Sara Jastremsky, donor's maternal grandmother, dated circa pre-1933, Bedzin, Poland.
Aron Krakower letters
Document
Two letters received by Joseph Krakower [donor] and Cecile Krakower [donor's mother] from Aron (Armand) Krakower [donor's father] who was interned in Pithiviers internment camp in France; dated May 16, 1942 and June 24, 1942.
