Esther Lurie collection

Identifier: irn45712
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45712

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Esther Lurie.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of pen and ink drawings, etchings, and watercolors created by Esther Lurie during the Holocaust about her experiences in the Kovno Ghetto in German occupied Lithuania in the years 1941, 1942, 1943.

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Displaying items 1 to 12 of 12

Etching by Esther Lurie of the expulsion to the camps from the ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11584
- English
- 1957
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Etching of people awaiting deportation from Kovno Ghetto created in 1957 from a 1957 drawing by Esther Lurie reconstructing a work she drew in 1943 while imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a large crowd with Star of David badges holding suitcases and gathering in a street. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional a...
Ghetto panorama and two buldings drawn by Esther Lurie
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11585
- English
- overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Ink drawing of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in the 1960s, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the Elders Committee meeting place and the large blocks. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...
Drawing by Esther Lurie of a panoramic view of daily life in the Kovno ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11586
- English
- overall: Height: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Width: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Ink drawing of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in the 1960s, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the Elders Committee meeting place and the large blocks. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...
Drawing by Esther Lurie of a panoramic view of daily life in the Kovno ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11587
- English
- overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 19.750 inches (50.165 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Ink drawing of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in the 1960s, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the Elders Committee meeting place and the large blocks. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...
Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11588
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Etching created in 1957 from a drawing done by Esther Lurie in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a closely packed group of people with large sacks waiting in line. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her...
Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11589
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 17.250 inches (43.815 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Sketch drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1942 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a ghetto street lined with buildings near a row of trees on a hillside with a building in the distance. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, se...
Esther Lurie sketch of the barbed wire fence and a gate in Kovno Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11590
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 16.125 inches (40.958 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Sketch of the Kovno Ghetto drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1942 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a barbed wire fence along a long road, where a man and woman stand talking near a gate. See 1996.3.8 for w watercolor of the same scene. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a pro...
Esther Lurie sketch of people entering the main gate to the Kovno Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11591
- English
- 1943
- overall: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 16.125 inches (40.958 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Sketch of an entrance to the Kovno Ghetto drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943, while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the main gate to the Ghetto with the Slobodka Bridge in the distance. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, ...
Drawing by Esther Lurie of the path behind the ghetto leading to the Ninth Fort
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11592
- English
- 1957
- overall: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Sketch of the hills behind the Kovno Ghetto leading to the Ninth Fort drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943, while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. The Germans used the Ninth Fort as a prison and site for the torture and mass executions of 25,000 Jews from Kovno. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while interned in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Est...
Drawing by Esther Lurie of the Vilijampole neighborhood in Kovno Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11593
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Drawing of deserted streets with barracks and small buildings in the Vilijampole blocks of Kovno Ghetto drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943, while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while interned in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...
Esther Lurie watercolor of the barbed wire fence, Kovno Ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11594
- English
- 1941
- overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Watercolor of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1941 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a barbed wire fence along a long road, where a man and woman stand talking near a gate. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latv...
Drawing by Esther Lurie of the Yad Vashem Memorial Shrine
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn11595
- English
- 1963
- overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Image of the Yad Vashem Memorial Shrine and surrounding hills drawn by Esther Lurie in Jerusalem in 1963. Lurie was a professional artist whose drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, and her later reconstructions, of life as a prisoner in Kovno Ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, present eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her sister in Kovno in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create por...