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Hanukkah 1944

Print
1944 (designed), 1945 (printed and published)
Artist/Maker
Agudat Jiszrael (publisher)
Gluck, Felix (artist)
Place of origin
Budapest (printed and published)

This Hanukkah postcard was issued by the Jewish organisation Agudat Jiszrael (Union of Israel) in Budapest in 1945. The image was designed by Felix Gluck in 1944 and shows concentration camp inmates celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. The artist, who had fled his native Bavaria for Budapest in 1936 to escape the Nazis, was imprisoned in Mauthausen, a forced labour camp in Austria, from 1944 to 1945.


Object details

Categories
Greeting Cards
Judaism
Religion
Object type
Print
TitleHanukkah 1944 (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Lithography on card
Brief description
Felix Gluck. "Hanukkah 1944." Hanukkah card issued by Agudat Jiszrael (Union of Israel), Budapest, 1945.
Physical description
Postcard in portrait format. On the front: image printed in black depicting four concentration camp inmates (half length) behind a makeshift Hanukkah menorah, lettered within the image Hanukkah (in Hebrew) 1944. On the back: postcard template and text in Magyar, printed in black.
Dimensions
  • Height: 15.5cm
  • Width: 10.7cm
Subjects depicted
Judaism
Prisoners
Hanukkah Lamps
The Holocaust
Summary
This Hanukkah postcard was issued by the Jewish organisation Agudat Jiszrael (Union of Israel) in Budapest in 1945. The image was designed by Felix Gluck in 1944 and shows concentration camp inmates celebrating Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. The artist, who had fled his native Bavaria for Budapest in 1936 to escape the Nazis, was imprisoned in Mauthausen, a forced labour camp in Austria, from 1944 to 1945.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.322-1982

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O548469/hanukkah-1944-print-gluck-felix/
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