Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of paintings created by Sophia Kerpholz Kalski from 1981-1994 about her experiences in the ghettos in Lwow and Trembowla, Poland (Lviv and Terebovlia, Ukraine), and her life as a child living in hiding during the Holocaust.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Sophia Kalski.
Browse 20 Items In This Collection
Abstract painting of a falling head by a former hidden child expressing her grief at the loss of her father in the Holocaust
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.1
commemoration: 1943 January
Painting by Sophia Kalski of a building fire she saw with her father in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.2
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1942 October
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl hiding in a secret room as German soldiers search for Jews
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.3
depiction: L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 January 05-1943 January 06
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl looking through a window at a horsedrawn sleigh packed with dead bodies
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.4
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 January 07
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl in a red dress watching children play a game in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.5
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1942 September-1942 December
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl inside a room with a circle of charred bodies in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.6
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 January
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl standing alone at the Lwow ghetto fence in the falling snow
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.7
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 January
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl exhausted and alone in a bare room in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.8
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 February
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl with her father in a restaurant in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.9
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1942 December
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young girl visiting friends in a sparsely furnished interior in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.10
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 February
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her childhood experiences when she hid with a group of people in a basement as soldiers searched upstairs
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.11
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 February
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young child finding refuge following the death of her father in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.12
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 March
Painting by Sophia Kalski based on her experiences as a young child hiding behind a door as soldiers searched a room in the Lwow ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.13
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 February
Painting by Sophia Kalski picturing her escape through the Lwow ghetto fence when she was a young child
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.14
depiction: Lwow (Poland) (historic); L'viv (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 March
Painting by Sophia Kalski of a young girl hiding in an underground bunker with a group of men, women, and children
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.15
depiction: Trembowla ghetto (Poland) (historic); Terebovlia (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 April 07
Painting by Sophia Kalski of a young girl watching 4 men carry a woman shot to death by the Germans in the Trembowla ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.16
depiction: Trembowla ghetto (Poland) (historic); Terebovlia (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 April
Painting by Sophia Kalski of the grove of trees where she and her mother hid after escaping the Trembowla ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.17
depiction: Trembowla ghetto (Poland) (historic); Terebovlia (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 June
Painting by Sophia Kalski of a young girl and her mother with their rescuers in a wheatfield after their escape from the ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.18
depiction: Trembowla ghetto (Poland) (historic); Terebovlia (Ukraine)
depiction: 1943 June
Painting by Sophia Kalski expressing how she felt when she was a young girl imprisoned in the ghettos
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.19
depiction: Trembowla (Poland) (historic); Terebovlia (Ukraine)
depiction: 1942 September-1943 May
Painting by Sophia Kalski of a young girl sitting with raised fists on a trash heap of discarded objects surrounded by oversized burning candles
Object | Accession Number: 2004.698.20
depiction: Trembowla ghetto (Poland) (historic); Terebovlia (Ukraine)
depiction: 1942 September-1944 March
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