Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Sketchbook belonging to Dora Ajlkichen (1926-1942) who was deported from Brussels on 15 August 1942 and was murdered at Auschwitz.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rosie Ajlkichen Leibman
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Paintings
- Object Type
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Sketchbooks
- Physical Description
- Detached artbook consisting of a seperate cover and back cover of dark paper with 6 pieces of artwork on off-white papers
- Dimensions
- a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
b: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
c: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
d: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
e: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
f: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
g: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)
h: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) - Materials
- overall : paper
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The sketchbook was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Rosie Ajlkichen Leibman.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:31:03
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn592728
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Also in This Collection
Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers
Document
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ajlkichen family of Brussels, Belgium, including the efforts of Kiwa Ajlkichen and his wife, Tcharna Fleichaker, to hide their children Roza and François, and the deportation of their daughter, Dora, in 1942 and her murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Documents include identification papers, a Polish passport, correspondence, a family book, a personal narrative describing Roza’s experiences, and material related to the family’s effort to learn the fate of Dora. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Ajlkichen family in Brussels and the Fleichaker family in Poland; wartime photographs of Roza and François in hiding at the Château de Beloeil and of Georges Dath, one of the counsellors who cared for Roz and François at Beloeil; and post-war family photographs in Belgium.
