A model of the Lodz ghetto created by ghetto resident Leon Jacobson in 1940. Jacobson was a shoemaker by training.

Photograph | Photograph Number: N00356

Photographer: Arnold Kramer
Date: 1991 August 21
Locale: Washington, DC United States
Photo Designation: EXHIBITIONS -- Permanent Exhibition -- Exhibition Segments -- Third Floor
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leon Jacobson

Event History: The Lodz ghetto model, which was fashioned out of leather, is shaped according to the outline of the ghetto walls. The model shows the locations of footbridges, ruined synagogues, factories and cemeteries. Inside the model cover are official ghetto seals, currency and a ration card. The scale is 1:5000. Before his deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944, Leon Jacobson, the creator of the model, buried it in the basement of the building he lived in. He survived the war and recovered the model. The model is now on display in the USHMM permanent exhibition.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005071.
Keyword: ART OF THE HOLOCAUST
ARTIFACTS
GHETTOS (ARTIFACTS)
JACOBSON, LEON
LODZ
MODELS
THIRD FLOOR
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Leon Jacobson

Source Record ID: Collections: 1996.120.1
: Record last modified: 2006-07-27 00:00:00
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