Hannah Kaplan collection

Identifier: irn517422
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Sheldon Kaplan, on behalf of his wife Hannah Kaplan.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of three published portfolios of artwork, Tanuságtétel by Shraga Weil, 16 fameszete by Miklos Adler, and Danse Macabre by Ernest (Emo) Barta, published soon after the Holocaust.

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Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517423
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
Enclosure for Tanusagtetel (Testimony), a commemorative portfolio containing 10 individual prints created by Sraga (Shraga ) Weil, a Hungarian artist and resistance member in Budapest during the war, depicting scenes of concentration camp inmates, camp life, and atrocities. The original drawings were dated 1945 and the portfolio was published in 1946.
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517424
- English
- 1947-1946
- Updated 1 year ago
Portfolio cover for published prints, 16 fametszete (woodcuts), containing 15 prints from a 16 print set, created by Miklos Adler, featuring scenes he witnessed while a concentration camp prisoner. This copy has prints 2-15. Opening and closing pages: "know from where did you come..." (end page) ."..and also know where are you going." From the author's introduction: "This book has no title because one cannot find a word to express what with the Europian (sic) Jews happened in the last two years. ...Brothers, sisters innocently destroyed and killed ! I am mourning you until my death."
Portfolio
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517425
- English
- 1946
- Updated 1 year ago
Limited edition portfolio, 117/300, of 16 prints by Ernest (Emo) Barta with allegorical images of Holocaust related subjects. Each print is numbered 117/300 and signed by the artist.

Hannah Kaplan collection

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