Ghetto-Wache

Not on view

Date1943

Mediumpen and ink red ink, wash

Dimensionsoverall: 8 1/8 in x 11 3/8 in

ClassificationsDrawing

Credit LineGift of Herman and Gerda Korngold

Object number2624.89

Object DescriptionPen and ink drawing of ghetto guard (police); Ghetto-Wache in red lettering, gray and wash emblem at center. Signed and dated bottom right corner PL 43. On reverse in pencil: #5.

Collections

Documenting Nazi Ghettos

Keywords

German
Ghettos
Jewish ghetto police
Terezin

NotesSee book, Terezin (D805.C95 T5) p. 36: Ghetto-Wache renamed Gemeinde-Wache as part of deception. Peter Loewenstein, brother of Gerda Korngold, was born in 1919 in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia; grew up in Litomerice (Leitmeritz). He attended Charles University in Prague for engineering. Loewenstein was deported to Terezin (transport # AK 1, 361) fall 1941, where he worked in the technical department, executing drawings in pen and ink and watercolor. He was deported to Auschwitz 1944 where he perished. See MJH newsletter March 1990. Lent to Massachusetts College of Art, Seeing through Paradise exhibit, 1991.

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