Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Cloth sailor doll that was purchased for the donor, Inge Raphael Rothschild, by her parents while aboard the SS President Harding, which sailed to America in 1938, when they fled Nazi Germany.
- Date
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received:
1938
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Inge Raphael Rothschild
Physical Details
- Classification
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Toys
- Category
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Dolls
- Object Type
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Cloth dolls (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Cloth doll with tan velvet cloth head, hands, and feet wearing a long-sleeved and bell-bottomed navy jumpsuit. Facial features applied with paint.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
- Materials
- overall : cloth, thread, paint
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jewish refugees--Germany.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The doll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Inge Raphael Rothschild.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-08 12:29:18
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn737586
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Also in Raphael family collection
The collection consists of documents, photographs, and an appointment book as well as a doll and ring that were given to Inge Raphael Rothschild.
Date: approximately 1938
Raphael family papers
Document
Includes identification documents, correspondence, photographs, and a handwritten appointment book that was kept by the donor's aunt as a diary. The materials capture the Raphael family's experience as they fled Nazi Germany for the U.S.
Ring with its box given to Inge Raphael Rothschild
Object
Ring with its accompanying box that was given to the donor, Inge Raphael Rothschild, on the occasion of her birth.
