Scratchboard photocopy
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 20.750 inches (52.705 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)
Archival History
The scratchboard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Eva Skrenta, the daughter of Jerzy Kajetanski.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Eva Skrenta
Scope and Content
Photocopy of a scratchboard. The original is in the War Memorial in Canberra, Australia. Part of a collection that includes thirty eight black and white scratchboards from the 1950s and 1980s relating to the experiences of Jerzy Kajetanski, his wife, and his extended family, non-Jewish Polish persons, during the war when several were conscripted as laborers and sent to Germany, as well as after the war in Germany, Poland, and the United States.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Black and white photocopy image of a woman holding a child at a destroyed city. Photocopy of an original scratchboard.
Genre
- Object
- Art