Jewish Antisemite in the Ghetto|The stupid bird Gelbstern (Yellow Star) befouls his own nest. | Head Count: Thou Shall be Counted|On November 11, 1943, the SS administration unexpectedly ordered a “census count” of the ghetto population. | Competitors for Potatoes|Old people were looking for potatoes in the rubbish. So were birds and rats as well.| In Beth Halutzoth – in the Hamburg Barracks, room No. 305|Room 305, in the House of Halutzim, officially in the Hamburg Barracks, was a home for Else Lichtblau (Elsa Leskly) and 25 other Jewish women. | Ghetto Guard morning greeting Good Morning Herr Doktor|Dr. Karl Löwenstein, a former officer of the imperial German army, perhaps only half-Jewish, was appointed by the Nazis a commander of the Ghettowache, (Ghetto Guard). | Everyone sought a place to be alone in its own Kumbal (compartment) |Privacy was only possible for the owner of a so-called Kumbal. | Jewish Antisemite in the Ghetto|The stupid bird Gelbstern (Yellow Star) befouls his own nest. | Head Count: Thou Shall be Counted|On November 11, 1943, the SS administration unexpectedly ordered a “census count” of the ghetto population. | Competitors for Potatoes|Old people were looking for potatoes in the rubbish. So were birds and rats as well.|

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Erich Lichtblau Watercolors

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Józef Jonski, second letter from Dachau Concentration Camp to his aunt, Bronislawa Nowak, in Lodz. Dated 16 July 1944.

Józef Jonski, second letter from Dachau Concentration Camp to his aunt, Bronislawa Nowak, in Lodz. Dated 16 July 1944.

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The Art of Erich Lichtblau

Erich Lichtblau (Eli Leskley), a commercial designer from Czechoslovakia, was deported together with his wife Elsa to the Theresienstadt Ghetto in November 1942. Following the “Painters Affair,” in the fall of 1944, the Nazis began searches for incriminating documents and drawings. Fearing for his life, Erich Lichtblau tore many of his paintings, destroyed almost all captions, and with the help of his wife Elsa hid the remaining pieces of the extensive Pictorial Ghetto Diary. After liberation, Elsa recovered the hidden fragments. In 1970s and in the beginning of 1980s, he replicated all ghetto-period watercolors in the large placard-size format. The museum exhibit showcases Erich Lichtblau’s original watercolors next to his recreated artwork.

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