Edward Lawrence Associates castings collection

Identifier: irn671551
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn671551

Acquisition

The collection was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of fiberglass castings of a ghetto and cemetery walls, a dissecting table, a cobbled road, a doorway surround, a gateway arch, a gas chamber door, and a crematorium oven, stretcher, and poker, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum relating to the experiences of Jewish victims in the Warsaw, Łódź, and Krakow ghettos, Majdanek and Treblinka killing centers, and Mauthausen and Auschwitz concentration camps in Poland and Austria during the Holocaust.

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Casting of a double-muffle oven from the crematorium at Mauthausen concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14208
- English
- overall: Height: 62.500 inches (158.75 cm) | Width: 99.500 inches (252.73 cm) | Depth: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Painted fiberglass casting of a brick and iron, double-muffle crematorium oven at Mauthausen concentration camp in German-occupied Austria, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, and established a concentration camp roughly three miles from the town of Mauthausen the following August. It originally functioned as a forced-labor camp with a granite quarry. Additionally, in 1941, the camp began to carry out mass killings using gas and several other methods. The systematic killing...
Casting of a brick wall from the closed Warsaw Jewish Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14209
- English
- a: Height: 103.000 inches (261.62 cm) | Width: 137.000 inches (347.98 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 101.750 inches (258.445 cm) | Width: 184.000 inches (467.36 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) c: Height: 100.250 inches (254.635 cm) | Width: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Fiberglass casting of a segment of the brick wall surrounding the Warsaw ghetto, from the area at 51 Sienna Street, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The casting was taken from one of three remaining sections of the ghetto wall, which the Jewish community was forced to pay for and was built in 1940, by the German firm of Schmidt & Munstermann. Prior to the war, Warsaw was a major center of Jewish life and culture, with a Jewish population over 350,000, making it the largest Jewish community in Europe. On Se...
Casting of a wall made from fragments of Jewish headstones at the Remu Cemetery in Kraków
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14211
- English
- overall: Height: 124.500 inches (316.23 cm) | Width: 611.250 inches (1552.575 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) a: Height: 101.500 inches (257.81 cm) | Width: 203.000 inches (515.62 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) b: Height: 121.500 inches (308.61 cm) | Width: 136.625 inches (347.028 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 124.500 inches (316.23 cm) | Width: 123.250 inches (313.055 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) d: Height: 123.500 inches (313.69 cm) | Width: 158.375 inches (402.273 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Fiberglass casting of a portion of the wall along Szeroka Street at the Remu Cemetery (or Old Jewish Cemetery, Remuh Cemetery) in Kraków, Poland, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The Remu cemetery was actively used for burials between 1551 and 1800, when Austrian authorities ordered all cemeteries in the city center to close. A new Jewish cemetery was opened the following year, and the Remu cemetery became known as the “old Jewish cemetery.” By the time German forces occupied Krakow on September 6, 1939, the ...
Casting of a concrete and metal dissecting table from the crematorium building at Majdanek concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14215
- English
- a: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 93.000 inches (236.22 cm) | Depth: 36.250 inches (92.075 cm) b: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 27.250 inches (69.215 cm) | Depth: 38.500 inches (97.79 cm) c: Height: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm) | Width: 26.750 inches (67.945 cm) | Depth: 39.250 inches (99.695 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Fiberglass casting of a dissection table at Majdanek killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The dissection table was located in a separate room within the crematorium building, and was used to extract gold dental fillings and other valuables from victims after their bodies were removed from the gas chambers. The construction of Majdanek, in German-occupied Poland, began in the fall of 1941, following SS chief Heinrich Himmler’s July 1941 order to establish a concentration camp in Lublin to provide fo...
Casting of a cobblestone pathway at Treblinka killing center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14216
- English
- a: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 210.500 inches (534.67 cm) | Depth: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 156.875 inches (398.463 cm) | Depth: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) c: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 170.500 inches (433.07 cm) | Depth: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) d: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 175.000 inches (444.5 cm) | Depth: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm) e: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Depth: 28.500 inches (72.39 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Fiberglass casting of a portion of the Czarna Droga (Black Road) at Treblinka concentration camp, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The Czarna Droga was a cobblestone road, approximately two kilometers long, which connected Treblinka I (forced-labor camp) and Treblinka II (killing center) in German-occupied Poland. Some of the cobblestones contain Hebrew inscriptions that are most likely fragments of desecrated tombstones from a Jewish cemetery. Treblinka was established in November 1941, as a forced-labor camp...
Casting of the doorway surround from the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14220
- English
- a: Height: 123.375 inches (313.372 cm) | Width: 38.750 inches (98.425 cm) | Depth: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) b: Height: 123.375 inches (313.372 cm) | Width: 38.500 inches (97.79 cm) | Depth: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) c: Height: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) | Width: 84.750 inches (215.265 cm) | Depth: 48.625 inches (123.508 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Fiberglass casting of the entrance doorway surround of the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1 (later the Helena Wolf Hospital), commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland, and occupied Łódź the following week, renaming it Litzmannstadt. In February 1940, the German authorities established the Łódź ghetto in the existing slum of Baluty, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a half square miles. The ghetto was surrounded by barbed wire fencing, and sealed on April 30. T...
Casting of Auschwitz entrance arch
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14223
- English
- overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 257.000 inches (652.78 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Casting of the archway over the main gate to Auschwitz concentration camp (Auschwitz I) in German-occupied Poland. Auschwitz I was established in April 1940, in an abandoned Polish army barracks and was continuously expanded by forced labor. The motto on the arch came from the title of a 19th-century novel by Lorenz Diefenbach, first deployed as propaganda during the German economic and unemployment crisis of the 1920s and 1930s. Under the Nazi regime, it was also displayed in several other concentration camps around Europe, and suggested that the purpose of the camps was to reform inmates,...
Casting of crematorium stretcher used to load the ovens at Mauthausen concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14224
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Depth: 119.500 inches (303.53 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Painted fiberglass casting of a long, rectangular stretcher from the crematorium at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, and established a concentration camp roughly three miles from the town of Mauthausen the following August. It originally functioned as a forced-labor camp with a granite quarry. Additionally, in 1941, the camp began to carry out mass killings using gas and several other methods. The systematic killings necessitated...
Casting of a long fire hook used with the crematorium ovens at Mauthausen concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14225
- English
- overall: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 63.125 inches (160.338 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Painted fiberglass casting of a long fire hook from the crematorium at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria, and established a concentration camp roughly three miles from the town of Mauthausen the following August. It originally functioned as a forced-labor camp with a granite quarry. Additionally, in 1941, the camp began to carry out mass killings using gas and several other methods. The systematic killings necessitated the construc...
Double-sided casting of a gas chamber door from Majdanek concentration camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14226
- English
- overall: Height: 79.000 inches (200.66 cm) | Width: 41.250 inches (104.775 cm) | Depth: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Fiberglass casting of a metal gas chamber door at Majdanek killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. Construction on the gas chambers began in August 1942, and they were located just behind Barrack No. 41, which contained an undressing room and a main shower room. Off the main shower room were three smaller chambers, two of which were reconfigured for the use of Zyklon-B gas. In nearby Barrack No. 42 was another gas chamber, where Zyklon-B was used to delouse clothing. The construction of Majdanek, in G...