Letter from Esther Lurie regarding lost art, 1945
Details
Document

Letter from Esther Lurie regarding lost art, 1945

This document is one page of a letter from artist Esther Lurie, written after the war, asking for help in following down leads and locating the artwork she had created and hidden while imprisoned in the Kovno ghetto, Lithuania. 

She wrote, "The matter concerns a collection of 200 pen-and-ink drawings representing scenes of ghetto life which I made during my internment in the Kaunas Ghetto (Lithuania) in 1941-1944. 

I left the drawings buried in the earth as I felt that I had no hope of survival."

Transcript

Tags


  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Esther Lurie
View Archival Details

Thank you for supporting our work

We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies, Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, the Claims Conference, EVZ, and BMF for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of donor acknowledgement.