Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith Sherman
Physical Details
- Classification
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Art
- Category
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Children's art
- Object Type
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Children's drawings (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Drawing of an airplane.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, pencil
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum does not own copyright to this material. No information about the copyright was included on the Deed of Gift.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Judith Sherman, an orphaned child cared for by Alice Goldberger.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:20:09
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Also in Alice Goldberger collection
The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, drawings, and paintings relating to Alice Goldberger and the orphaned children survivors of concentration camps in her care in Lingfield, England, after the Holocaust.
Date: 1945-1986
Alice Goldberger papers
Document
The Alice Goldberger papers include biographical materials documenting Alice Goldberger and one of her staff members, Martha (Manna) Friedmann; correspondence, photograph albums, and reports documenting the work of Weir Courtney and the Lingfield House as well as the lives of child Holocaust survivors who lived there; and an extensive collection of the children’s artwork. Biographical material consists of honors, obituaries, memories, and tributes honoring Alice Goldberger and her work for the children of Weir Courtney and Lingfield house and Martha (Manna) Friedmann, a staff member at Weir Courtney. Correspondence includes selected letters from some of the children of Weir Courtney including Mirjam, Zdenka, Denny, Judith, and Tanja to Alice Goldberger, a letter from an adoptive parents describing how well her adopted child is adjusting, and letters documenting the reunion of Lilian and Andra Bucci with their mother in 1946. The photograph albums series includes three albums. The first documents the children of Weir Courtney and depicts the estate, Alice Goldberger, child survivors of the Holocaust including Eva, Hanka, Mirjam, Zdenka, Vicky, Sylvia, Judith, Liliana, Andra, Asta, Renate, Denny, Tanya, Dora, a staff member named Sophie, and a dog named Teddy. The album also includes later photographs of Judith and Mirjam Stern and their children. The second album documents the rooms and activities at Weir Courtney home through photographs and poetry. The third album documents Alice Goldberger’s 1978 appearance on the British television show “This is Your Life” and the grown children she aided at Weir Courtney and Lingfield House. Reports primarily consist of messages from the Weir Courtney and Lingfield house staff to Americans participating in “Foster Parent” program providing financial assistance to the children’s homes. The monthly reports describe daily life at the homes, provide thoughtful and personal details about the children’s histories, and offer updates on the challenges and achievements of individual children. The reports provide details about children named Andra, Asta, Avigdor, Bella, Berli, Charles, Denny, Erwin, Eva, Freddy, Fritz, Gadi, Gittel, Hanka, Hedi, Judith, Julius, Liliana, Lizzi, Magda, Margot, Milly, Mirjam, Peter, Rachel, Renate, Ruth, Sylvia, Tanja, Traute, Vicky, Zdenka. Lingfield House Reports provide updates about the home as well as fundraising and committee information. A 1977 report provides updates about Charles, Denny, Dora, Elsa, Eva, Fritz, Hanka, Hedi, Judith, Magda, Mirjam, Sylvia, Tanja, Vicky, Zdenka as adults. Works by children primarily include artwork by children at Weir Courtney and Lingfield House. Artwork includes a green binder the children created for Alice Goldberger’s birthday in 1951, a string-bound album of children’s drawings, a ribbon-bound folio of drawings and poems addressed to Alice, handmade pamphlets of drawings, and more than one hundred loose drawings and paintings. This series also include a folder of poems and songs by the children, many of which are illustrated, and certificates documenting trees planted in Israel in the name of the children. Much of the creative work is unattributed, but there are creations signed by Berli, Charles Kersler, Claus, Denny, Ervin Bogner, Eva Traub, other Eva, Fritz, Hanka, Hedi, Judith Singer, Judith Stern, Juliet, Marie, Mirjam Stern, Norbert, Pauline, Peter, Rachel, Ruth Kamaryth, Sylvia, Tanja, Usha, Vicky, and Zdenka.
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Watercolor of five people under a vine painted by an orphan child at Lingfield House
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Post-war painting depicting children under a vine with hanging fruit, likely celebrating the Sukkot holiday. Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that celebrates harvest and commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. The drawing was made for Alice Goldberger by a child at Weir Courtney, an estate home in Surrey England where orphaned children who survived internment in concentration camps were cared for after the war. Alice, the matron of Weir Courtney, gave this and other artwork to former resident Judith Sherman. Judith and her younger sister Mirjam were from the village of Kurima in Czechoslovakia. In 1942, the situation became increasingly dangerous for Jews, and the sisters were sent into hiding in Hungary by their family. Mirjam remained with a family in hiding, but Judith was captured while hiding in the forest and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Their parents, brother, and numerous extended family members were all killed in concentration camps. After the war, the sisters were sent to England to live at Weir Courtney along with 22 other child survivors. The home provided a safe, caring, and nourishing environment for the children. Aside from their regular studies, the children gardened, studied music and dance, learned Hebrew, and were encouraged to create art.
Watercolor with a variety of fruit painted by an orphan child at Lingfield House
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Post-war painting depicting a still-life bowl of fruit, including two green etrogs, a common citrus fruit used as part of Sukkot holiday. Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that celebrates harvest and commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. The drawing was made for Alice Goldberger by a child at Weir Courtney, an estate home in Surrey England where orphaned children who survived internment in concentration camps were cared for after the war. Alice, the matron of Weir Courtney, gave this and other artwork to former resident Judith Sherman. Judith and her younger sister Mirjam were from the village of Kurima in Czechoslovakia. In 1942, the situation became increasingly dangerous for Jews, and the sisters were sent into hiding in Hungary by their family. Mirjam remained with a family in hiding, but Judith was captured while hiding in the forest and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Their parents, brother, and numerous extended family members were all killed in concentration camps. After the war, the sisters were sent to England to live at Weir Courtney along with 22 other child survivors. The home provided a safe, caring, and nourishing environment for the children. Aside from their regular studies, the children gardened, studied music and dance, learned Hebrew, and were encouraged to create art.
Watercolor of two figures in a room painted by an orphan child at Lingfield House
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Colorful post-war painting depicting a child watching someone decorate a room, likely for the Sukkot holiday. Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that celebrates harvest and commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. The drawing was made for Alice Goldberger by a child at Weir Courtney, an estate home in Surrey England where orphaned children who survived internment in concentration camps were cared for after the war. Alice, the matron of Weir Courtney, gave this and other artwork to former resident Judith Sherman. Judith and her younger sister Mirjam were from the village of Kurima in Czechoslovakia. In 1942, the situation became increasingly dangerous for Jews, and the sisters were sent into hiding in Hungary by their family. Mirjam remained with a family in hiding, but Judith was captured while hiding in the forest and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Their parents, brother, and numerous extended family members were all killed in concentration camps. After the war, the sisters were sent to England to live at Weir Courtney along with 22 other child survivors. The home provided a safe, caring, and nourishing environment for the children. Aside from their regular studies, the children gardened, studied music and dance, learned Hebrew, and were encouraged to create art.