Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

Identifier: irn105216
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Ava Kadishon Schieber.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of ten drawings and two paintings created by Ava Hegedish while living in hiding near Belgrade, Yugoslave, during the Holocaust.

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Displaying items 1 to 12 of 12

Drawing of her hiding place by a Jewish teenager
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33643
- English
- overall: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawing of a wooden shed by Ava Hegedish where she lived in hiding on a farm from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then 15. She did farm labor and lived i...
Self-portrait of a young woman looking sideways by a Jewish teenager in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33644
- English
- overall: Height: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Self portrait in pencil drawn by Ava Hegedish when, from age 15 to 18, she lived in hiding at the farm of a Serbian Christian peasant family near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then 15. She di...
Watercolor of sailboats of Jewish refugees painted by a Jewish woman artist
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33645
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Watercolor of sailboats on the Danube River painted by Ava Hegedish in 1941, just before or while living in hiding near Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The painting depicts the ships filled with Jewish refugees from Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia that she saw anchored in the middle of the river in the late 1930s-early 1940s. They were not permitted to enter port and were forced to continue their journey to the Black Sea where Ava believed they perished. She thought of them as ghost ships. The Jewish community sent food and clothing to the ships, and sometimes the students who delivered the supp...
Fantasy sketch of a figure running to a tree by a Jewish teen in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33646
- English
- overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawing of a large leafless tree and a mysterious figure drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Germany and the Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Jews were ordered to register, and Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad. Ava's mother got false papers and remained in Belgrade with Ava's older sister Susanna, who married her Greek Orthodox fiance. The fiance ...
Drawing of her mother's shoes by a Jewish teenager in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33647
- English
- overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawing of a worn pair of her mother's shoes drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then 15. Sh...
Self portrait with braids by a Jewish teenager in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33648
- English
- overall: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Self portrait drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then 15. She did farm labor and lived in this she...
Drawing of her grandmother in profile created by Jewish teenage girl in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33649
- English
- overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawing of her paternal grandmother, Hermina Hirschel, drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) Ava also did an oil painting of her, 2007.521.4. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a far...
Oil portrait of her grandmother by a Jewish teenager in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33650
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Oil painting of her paternal grandmother, Hermina Hirschel, painted by Ava Hegedish in 1941, when she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) Ava also did a oil portrait of her, 2007.521.4. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm nea...
Drawing of the stairway near her hiding place by Jewish teenager
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33651
- English
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawing of steps near a wooden wagon drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) The wooden shack where she lived was nearby. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and th...
Drawing of a large leafy tree near her hiding place by a Jewish teenager
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33652
- English
- overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Ink drawing of large tree drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then 15. She did farm labor and lived...
Sketches of a foot and 2 hands done in hiding by Jewish teenager
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33653
- English
- overall: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawings of a foot and two hands done by Ava Hegedish, at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then 15. She did farm l...
Portrait of her mother reading a book by a Jewish artist
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn33654
- English
- 1942-1943
- overall: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil drawing of her mother, Beatrice Hegedish, drawn by Ava Hegedish, ca. 1942-1943, on one of their rare visits in Belgrade during the war after the family went into hiding in spring 1941. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm near Belgrade and they agreed to take in Ava, then...