John Fink collection

Identifier: irn512840
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn512840

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Alice and John Fink.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a needlepoint wall hanging and a photographic postcard relating to the experiences of John Fink after the Holocaust when he was an AJDC aid worker in the Blankensee Children's Home and the Warburg Institute in Hamburg, Germany.

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Needlepoint wall hanging of a biblical scene from the office of a former concentration camp inmate and postwar aid worker
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn512842
- English
- overall: Height: 36.250 inches (92.075 cm) | Width: 35.000 inches (88.9 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Multi-color needlepoint picture with cross-stitched silk details that hung on the wall of John (Hans) Finke's office in the Blankensee Children's Home at the Warburg Institute in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked for the AJDC from July 1947 - March 1949. It features two richly dressed figures styled after Rembrandt's biblical, turbanned figures discussing an appeal from a plainly dressed old man kneeling before them. Hans was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then for various...

John Fink collection

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Needlepoint wall hanging of a biblical scene from the office of a former concentration camp inmate and postwar aid worker