Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Esther Lurie before the Holocaust in Latvia, Palestine, and Western Europe, during the Holocaust when she was imprisoned in the Kovno (Kaunus) Ghetto in Lithuania, Stuthoff concentration camp and Leibitsch forced labor camp in Germany, and after the Holocaust during and after her return journey to Israel.
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Esther Lurie.
Browse 41 Items In This Collection
Esther Lurie papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Yellow damask purse made by a liberated slave labor camp inmate, saved by another inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.2
Inscribed wooden spoon and patch saved by a former Jewish Latvian slave labor camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.3 a-b
commemoration: 1945 January 23-1965 January 23
Holocaust Commemoration Day Remember pin worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.4 a
Holocaust Commemoration Day Remember card received by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.4 b
Pin used to attach a Holocaust commemorative ribbon worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.5 a
Portrait of an Orthodox Jewish youth drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.6
Sketch of a Holocaust remembrance ceremony by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.7
depiction: Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot; Israel
Sketches of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.8
depiction: 1944
Portraits of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.9
depiction: 1944
Commemorative postage stamp mockup with art by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.10
manufacture: Tel Aviv (Israel)
depiction: 1944
Sketches of men with Judenstern by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.11
Sketch of people digging near a house by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.12
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Drawing of people digging for potatoes by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.13
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Eleven preparatory figure sketches by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.14
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Ten preparatory figure sketches by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.15
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Preparatory sketch of figures working in a field by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.16
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1941
Council building in Kovno Ghetto drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.17
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1943
Sketch by Esther Lurie of Kovno ghetto Jewish Council building
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.18
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1943
Person waiting at a ghetto gate drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.19
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1943
Portrait of a cap wearing youth by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.20
depiction: Kovno ghetto (historic); Kaunas (Lithuania)
depiction: 1942
Etching of a young man dressed for work with a Judenstern by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.21
depiction: approximately 1942
Esther Lurie full length self-portrait while a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.22
depiction: 1944
Esther Lurie self-portrait study while a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.23
depiction: 1944
Esther Lurie self-portrait while a concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.24
Sketch of a worker carrying a shovel drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.25
depiction: 1941
Prewar portrait of a male artist by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.26
Double sided sketch of Kovno Ghetto life by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.27
creation: Tel Aviv (Israel)
creation: 1957
Portrait of a Jewish Brigade soldier by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.29
Sketch of the Israel Philharmonic by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.30
Sketch of Stravinsky and the Israel Philharmonic by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.31
Sketch of the conductor, Israel Philharmonic by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.32
Sketch of the bay and Bar Harbor shore by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.33
Sketch of the bay and tree lined shore in Bar Harbor by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.34
Sketch of a house in the woods by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.35
Sketch of trees in Maine by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.36
depiction: 1981 April 26
Sketches of Eichmann with headphones at trial drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.37
creation: Jerusalem
creation: 1962 March 29-1961 December 15
Portrait sketches of Eichmann on trial drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.38
creation: Jerusalem
creation: 1962 March 29-1961 December 15
Sketch of Eichmann and attorneys during trial by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.39
creation: 1962 March 29
Sketch of a Baroque theater and park drawn by Esther Lurie
Object | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.40
creation: 1945 March
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