Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Small handmade braided flax figure with hat and shoes; mounted onto adhesive album page with “May 2, 1945” collaged separately beneath the doll; made for Irene on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday by a Polish Jewish girl who worked with Irene in the flax factory at Merzdorf, where they were liberated on May 8, 1945.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of the Estate of Irene Frank
Physical Details
- Classification
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Decorative Arts
- Category
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Handicrafts
- Object Type
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Figurines (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- flax figure with hat and shoes; decorative details including a red cloth ribbon on the hat and red and green thread on the shoes and torso
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm) | Depth: 0.380 inches (0.965 cm)
- Materials
- overall : flax, cotton, thread
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2021 by the Estate of Irene Frank.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-27 13:57:48
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn724103
