Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Limestone sculpture done by Arie Breznik (donor’s maternal cousin) from Boremel, Ukraine
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yoram Bar Gal In memory of the Zylberglajt Family and the Breznik Family
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Sculpture
- Object Type
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Commemorative sculpture (aat)
- Physical Description
- Sculpture depicting a candelabra
- Dimensions
- a: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 7.187 inches (18.255 cm) | Depth: 2.812 inches (7.142 cm)
c: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.938 inches (2.383 cm)
d: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.938 inches (2.383 cm)
e: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.938 inches (2.383 cm) - Materials
- overall : limestone
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The sculpture was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Yoram Bar Gal.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-03-02 09:17:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn563265
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Two limestone sculptures done by Arie Breznik (donor’s maternal cousin) from Boremel, Ukraine; one of the sculptures is symbolic grave for his family; Ink Drawing: done by Moshe Breznik (Arie’s 10-years-old brother), depicting Theodor Zeev Herzl. Arie kept it throughout the war in USSR. Correspondence: letters and postcards from Zylberglajt family in Warsaw, where Jankel Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal grandfather) was an owner of toy company at 51 Nowolipie Street; dated: 1936-1941 in Yiddish and Polish; other letters and postcards are from Zeev Zylberglajt’s friends and relatives, before the war and during the war from USSR and after the war from Poland, Germany and Cyprus. Among the survivors was Leon Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal uncle); Dawid Bajtsztok (paternal cousin) and Arie Breznik (maternal cousin); Photographs: depicting Breznik family in Boremel, and different friends Arie befriended in the Feladafing DP camp and in the Cyprus transit camp. [Accretion: poesie book, photographs, correspondence, book for Library] [Accretion: 1 sculpture]
Breznik and Zylberglajt families papers
Document
Contains letters and postcards from the Zylberglajt family in Warsaw, where Jankel Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal grandfather) was an owner of toy company at 51 Nowolipie Street; dated: 1936-1941 in Yiddish and Polish; other letters and postcards are from Zeev Zylberglajt’s friends and relatives, before the war and during the war from USSR and after the war from Poland, Germany and Cyprus. Also includes photographs depicting the Breznik family in Boremel, and different friends Arie befriended in the Feladafing DP camp and in the Cyprus transit camp. Among the survivors was Leon Zylberglajt (donor’s paternal uncle); Dawid Bajtsztok (paternal cousin) and Arie Breznik (maternal cousin).
Ink drawing
Object
Ink Drawing: done by Moshe Breznik (Arie’s 10-years-old brother), depicting Theodor Zeev Herzl. Arie kept it throughout the war in USSR.
Sculpture depicting a symbolic grave
Object
Llimestone sculpture done by Arie Breznik (donor’s maternal cousin) from Boremel, Ukraine depicting a symbolic grave for his family
Breznik and Zylberglajt families papers
Document
Contains an autograph ("Poesie") book owned by the donor's mother signed by her friends on the eve of her departure for Palestine in 1933, photographs, and correspondence,
Soapstone writing set
Object
Soapstone writing set made by Arie Berznik, the donor's maternal uncle, which he made in Cyprus transit camp after surviving the Holocaust.
