Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Cloth rectangle painted with four national flags; owned by Eva Hirschel.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Eva Hirschel
Physical Details
- Classification
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Decorative Arts
- Category
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Textiles
- Object Type
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Textile painting (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Cloth rectangle painted with the flags of 4 countries: the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Republic of China. The flag is framed in a contemporary wood frame with a burlap mat.
- Dimensions
- pictorial area: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cloth, paint
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use. No copyright information is known.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The painting was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Sabrina and Richard Kahn on behalf of the Estate of Eva Hirschel
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-15 10:20:52
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn552694
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Also in Eva Hirschel collection
The collection consists of an embroidered textile, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Eva Hirschel, her mother and stepfather Hedwig and Max Hirschel, and brother Horst who fled Bresalu, Germany, for Shanghai, China, in 1940.
Date: approximately 1940
Eva Hirschel family papers
Document
The collection documents the pre-war and Holocaust-era experiences of Hedwig, her daughter Eva, her husband Max, and his son Horst in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland) until 1940 and Shanghai, China from 1940-1947. Included are identification and employment documents, testimonies, and photographs. Immigration papers primarily document Eva and Hedwig’s immigration to the United States in 1947.
