Overview
- Collection Summary
- The collection consists of four drawings and one painting relating to the experiences of Gert Wollheim, originally from Germany, during the war when he was held in Vierzon, Ruchard, Gurs, and Septfonds internment camps in France.
- Provenance
- The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988.
Browse 5 Items In This Collection
Birds-eye view of the overcrowded Gurs barracks drawn by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.1
depiction: Gurs (Concentration camp); Gurs (France)
Pencil drawing of people crowded inside a barrack in Gurs created by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.2
depiction: Gurs (Concentration camp); Gurs (France)
Watercolor of a gaunt, sickly woman in Gurs created by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.3
Drawing of a couple sharing bread through barbed wire in Gurs drawn by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.4
depiction: Gurs (Concentration camp); Gurs (France)
Portrait of an old woman walking behind barbed wire drawn in Gurs by a German inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1988.4.5
depiction: Gurs (Concentration camp); Gurs (France)
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