Sketchbook with hand-colored drawings was owned by members of Benno M. Levisson’s family

Identifier
irn740771
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2022.202.2
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Dutch
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 5.512 inches (14 cm) | Width: 9.449 inches (24 cm) | Depth: 1.378 inches (3.5 cm)

Archival History

The sketchbook was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2022 by Heske Levie Zelermyer, daughter of Benno M. Levisson.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Heske Zelermyer

Scope and Content

The sketchbook with hand-colored drawings was owned by members of Benno M. Levisson’s family and relates to their experiences while living in the Netherlands, a portion of the time in hiding, and Curaçao between 1939 and 1945. Small sketches in a style similar to that used in the sketchbook appear in many of the letters between family members also found in the collection.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Rectangular sketchbook full of pencil and color pencil sketches on tan pages bound within well-worn, red, cloth covered, cardboard covers. The images depict a series of related images and text, as though relating a story, about a dog and several human and anthropomorphized animal characters. The Dutch text is recorded in black ink, and each of the 42 pages in the sequence is numbered. The images appear on only one side of each page. Six loose pages have been tucked into the front of the notebook. These appear to come from the same original source as the story pages, they have the same binding holes from a previous binding as the rest of the pages, but are not part of the story.

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Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.