Luba Krugman Gurdus collection

Identifier: irn85598
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn85598

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 by Luba Krugman Gurdus.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two drawings relating to the experiences of Luba Krugman Gurdus and her son Robert Michael (Bobus), who perished, age four, during the Holocaust in Poland.

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Portrait of a young boy who did not survive drawn postwar by his mother
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1150
- English
- 1977
- overall: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Expressive portrait sketch of 4 year Robert Michael (Bobus) Gurdus drawn by his mother Luba in 1977. Bobos and his parents, Luba and Jacob, were confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in fall 1939 following the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany that September. By December 1941, Luba and Bobos had gone to Brody Male near Lublin, and then to Zwierzyniec. Bobos died of diphtheria on September 12, 1942. Luba was later sent to Majdanek concentration camp. She survived and emigrated to Palestine in 1946.
Child's sketch of a train by a young boy who did not survive
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn1151
- English
- 1977
- overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)
- Updated 12 months ago
Sketch of a train created by Robert Michael (Bobos) Gurdus on his fourth birthday, August 24, 1942 in Zwierzyniec in German occupied Poland. Bobos watched train cars full of people being deported through the kitchen window of his home. Once, while watching the train go by with a non-Jewish Polish friend, the friend told him: "Soon, you will be in train." According to his mother, Bous had a slight awareness of the situation and was unsettled by what he saw and heard. Bobos and his parents, Luba and Jacob, were confined to the Warsaw Ghetto in fall 1939 following the occupation of Poland by N...

Luba Krugman Gurdus collection

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Portrait of a young boy who did not survive drawn postwar by his mother

Child's sketch of a train by a young boy who did not survive