InventarnummerM2012/018
BeschreibungThis is a small rectangular handmade metal object featuring a female profile in relief. There are four rounded hinges on each side. The object was a gift to Helena Midler on the occasion of her 23rd birthday, on 31 January 1942 in the Warsaw Ghetto, by her friend Wlodzimierz (Wlodek) Lewinsohn. Wlodzimierz was an artist and he made this gift for her.
Helena (born Chaja Raca) was involved with the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto and played a part in preparing for the Uprising of April 1943. While working in a laundry, washing German uniforms, she was assigned to help the ghetto fighters to steal some of those uniforms, thus enabling them to disguise themselves as Wehrmacht soldiers. She escaped from the ghetto just before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, hiding with three other Jews in a bathroom in a building for 18 months.
Helena (born Chaja Raca) was involved with the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto and played a part in preparing for the Uprising of April 1943. While working in a laundry, washing German uniforms, she was assigned to help the ghetto fighters to steal some of those uniforms, thus enabling them to disguise themselves as Wehrmacht soldiers. She escaped from the ghetto just before the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, hiding with three other Jews in a bathroom in a building for 18 months.
EntstehungsortWarsaw, Poland
Datum circa 1942
SchlagwortWarsaw ghetto, presents, artist
Objektbezeichnungminiature works
Materialmetal
Format
- width: 40.00 mm
height: 48.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Helena Goldstein