Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Part of a collection illustrating the experiences of Edith Ziegler who went to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of James Crawford Lowe
Physical Details
- Classification
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Decorative Arts
- Category
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Papercrafts
- Object Type
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Collages (visual works)(aat)
- Physical Description
- Silver colored cardboard cut into the shape of a key and decorated with a blue ribbon, blue fabric flowers and silver fabric leaves
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cardboard, cloth, paint
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- Restrictions on use
- Copyright Holder
- Mr. James C. Lowe
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by James C. Lowe, husband of Edith B. Ziegler Lowe.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 10:13:26
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn725546
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Also in Edith Bertha Lowe collection
Collection illustrating the experiences of Edith Ziegler who went to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria. The collection includes documents, correspondence, photographs, publications (3 miniature English-German/German-English dictionaries) and a handmade item in the shape of a key.
Edith Bertha Lowe papers
Document
The collection documents the wartime and postwar experiences of Edith Bertha Lowe (née Ziegler), who fled Vienna, Austria to Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, England in late 1938 or early 1939 on a Kindertransport. The bulk of the collection consists of prewar and wartime correspondence with members of her family in Vienna and Belgium. Other correspondence includes letters received from various friends and her husband James Crawford Lowe. Documents in the collection include ephemera from her time at Briar Patch orphanage and Letchworth Garden City, a ration book, clippings, and materials related to her immigration from England to Canada in 1949.
Miniature English-German dictionary
Object
Miniature English-German dictionary, part of a collection illustrating the experiences of Edith Ziegler who went to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria.
Miniature German-English dictionary
Object
Miniature German-English dictionary, part of a collection illustrating the experiences of Edith Ziegler who went to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria.
Miniature German-English dictionary
Object
Miniature German-English dictionary, part of a collection illustrating the experiences of Edith Ziegler who went to the United Kingdom with the Kindertransport from Vienna, Austria.
