Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Part of the items given to the donor by her mother for safekeeping.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Janina Jasinska Luterek in memory of her family
Physical Details
- Classification
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Dress Accessories
- Category
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Handkerchiefs
- Object Type
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Handkerchiefs (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Square white cotton handkerchief with embroidered lace border.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cotton
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The handkerchief was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Janina Jasinska Luterek.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:30:13
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn531318
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Also in Janina Jasinska Luterek family collection
The collection consists of two drawings, three handkerchiefs, and photographs relating to the experiences of Janina Jakubowicz and her family before, during, and after World War II in Poland.
Date: approximately 1920-approximately 1947
Child's drawing of a woman made for his grandmother
Object
Drawing done by Tadeusz Jakubowicz for his grandmother.
Janina Jasinska Luterek collection
Document
Contains photographs of Janina Jakubowicz and her family before the war in Tomaszow Mazowieck, Sosnowiec, and other localities. Includes photographs depicting Janina during the war in Warsaw, including portraits done in a photo booth for a false ID, photos with her father in Legionowo in 1942-1943, and postwar images showing Janina in Warsaw as a student in high school and in Art Academy and members of family who survived.
