Hanukkah 1944
Print
1944 (designed), 1945 (printed and published)
1944 (designed), 1945 (printed and published)
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| Place of origin |
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
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| Title | Hanukkah 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. |
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| 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 | |
| Accession number | E.322-1982 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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