Doll made at Bergen Belsen
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]M2022/020:004
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Doll made at Bergen Belsen
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]Traditionally dressed cloth doll with stitched face and brown wool hair made in Bergen Belsen, circa 1945. It includes a 1943 5 Mark Ghetto coin worn as a necklace.
Part of a collection of four dolls dressed in Polish folk costume made by refugees in Bergen Belsen DP (displaced persons) camp, and gifted to British Red Cross nurses Mrs Thompson, Miss Johnson and Miss Smith (later Mrs Bailey).
Part of a collection of four dolls dressed in Polish folk costume made by refugees in Bergen Belsen DP (displaced persons) camp, and gifted to British Red Cross nurses Mrs Thompson, Miss Johnson and Miss Smith (later Mrs Bailey).
[nb-NO]Production place[nb-NO]Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
[nb-NO]Date[nb-NO] 1945 - 1945
[nb-NO]Production period[nb-NO]World War II (1939-1945)
[nb-NO]Subject[nb-NO]concentration camps, liberation, toys, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, rehabilitation centres
[nb-NO]Object name[nb-NO]dolls
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
- width: 235.00 mm
height: 470.00 mm
[nb-NO]Credit line[nb-NO]Sydney Jewish Museum Collection





