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Sketchbook with paintings and sketches

Object | Accession Number: 2016.534.2 a-h
2016.534.2 a back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 a front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 b back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 b front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 c back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 c front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 d back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 d front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 e back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 e front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 f back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 f front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 g back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 g front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 h back Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge 2016.534.2 h front Sketchbook with paintings and sketches Click to enlarge

Sketchbook belonging to Dora Ajlkichen (1926-1942) who was deported from Brussels on 15 August 1942 and was murdered at Auschwitz.

Classification
Art
Category
Paintings
Object Type
Sketchbooks
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rosie Ajlkichen Leibman
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About This Object

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 : 14.500 x 9.500 x 0.250 in. (36.83 x 24.13 x 0.635 cm.)
b : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
c : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
d : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
e : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
f : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
g : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
h : 14.500 x 9.500 in. (36.83 x 24.13 cm.)
Materials
overall : paper

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The sketchbook was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Rosie Ajlkichen Leibman.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2018-06-25 08:17:18
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn592728

Also in This Collection

Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers

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.

Missel et Vesperal

Publication

Missal given to Jacques Lajbman by Father Philippe Laurent Cleeremans (1878-1944) while he was in hiding in the Belgian village of Tourinnes-St. Lambert.

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