Bloemen [Book}

Identifier
irn516697
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.703.2
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1936
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm)

Creator(s)

Archival History

The booklet was donated to the United States Holocaust Museum in 2004 by Judith de Leeuw Schavrien.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judith De Leeuw Schavrien and Meier Abraham de Leeuw

Scope and Content

Book about flowers with a later handwritten inscription given to 7 year old Judith de Leeuw during her last meeting with her father in 1942-1943 while in hiding in the Netherlands. Judith, her younger sister Roosje, age 4, and her parents lived in separate hiding places, Judith as placed in 1941 with the Denekamp family and joined by the rest of her family in 1942. There were eventually arrested by the Gestapo. Judith and her sister went sent to Belsen and Theresienstadt concentration camps. Her parents were deported to Sobibor killing center where they were murdered.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

17 p.; ill. ;17 cm. Illustrations by Elisabeth Ivanosky.

front, flyleaf, handwritten in cursive, blue ink : Dit boelje heb [illegible] van myn udder, toen hij ondergedohen [?] Geist. / Judith

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Genre

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