Handthrown ceramic vase with relief design of birds used by a German Jewish refugee family
- Date
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emigration:
1937
- Geography
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use:
Leipzig (Germany)
- Classification
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Decorative Arts
- Category
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Ceramics
- Object Type
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Vases (lcsh)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ellen, Erin, and Mark Rosenthal
Vase brought in a steamer trunk by 13 year old Edith Simon when she, her parents, Willy and Greta, and her sisters, Lotte and Gerda, emigrated from Leipzig, Germany, to the United States in 1937. The vase was a family heirloom, orignally owned by Hedwig Maerker, Edith's grandmother, who was killed in Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.
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