Werner Weinberg Dr. Siegfried Emmering Bergen-Belsen, 1944 Graphite on paper Deaccessioned from Bergen-Belsen Museum, Lohheide, Germany Werner Weinberg (1915-1997), a former faculty member at Cincinnati’s HUC-JIR Campus, was born on May 30, 1915 in Rheda, Germany. He served as a rabbi in Rheda until Kristallnacht, and shortly after escaped to Holland with his wife, [...]
Jood Badge Cloth Bergen Belsen, 1944 Gift of Werner Weinberg Estate Werner Weinberg (1915-1997), a former faculty member at Cincinnati’s HUC-JIR Campus, was born on May 30, 1915 in Rheda, Germany. Werner graduated from the Jewish Teachers Seminary in Wurzburg in 1936 and accepted a position in Hanover at a Jewish elementary school and [...]
Menorah Samuel Bak (b. 1933) Serigraph United States, ca. 1997 Gift of Mike and Toby Chernin B’nai B’rith Klutznick Collection of the Skirball Museum Samuel Bak survived the destruction of the Vilna ghetto and immigrated with his mother to Jerusalem in 1948, where he studied at the Bezalel School of Art and Design. After [...]
Raoul Wallenberg Medal Marika Somogyi (b. 1933) California, USA, 1983 Bronze, 4 ½ inches Gift of Judith Hanenson The life-saving rescue work of Raoul Wallenberg is a noteworthy example of resistance against Nazism. Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who began aiding Hungarian Jews in July of 1944. He provided Swedish protective passports to Jews [...]
Man of Peace Leonard Baskin Woodblock print 1952 Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Peter Blum 66.2461 Born in New Jersey, Baskin was raised in Brooklyn, New York. The son of a rabbi, he was educated at a Jewish religious college which had a profound effect on his aesthetic. He studied in New York and [...]
Yahrzeit Lamp/Kristallnacht Linda Gissen Kiln-fused, enameled and slumped glass; engraved bronze and copper direct welded metals USA, 1992 Gift of the Artist Gissen was one of 1000 artists who responded to the invitation to create work that expressed remembrance of the Holocaust, and specifically Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) for a publication entitled Artists Confronting [...]
Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) Alex Shagin (b. Russia, 1947) USA, 1995 Bronze, h. 1 ¾ x w. 1 ¾ in. Cincinnati Skirball Museum, Jewish-American Hall of Fame Collection, gift of Mel and Esther Wacks, Debra Wacks, and Shari Wacks, 2019.7.53 Elie Wiesel was born in the town of Sighet, now part of Romania. In 1944, [...]
Burning Synagogue 4—Piaski, Poland Greta Schreyer (Vienna 1917-New York City 2005) Oil on canvas, h. 24 x w. 30 in. USA, 1999 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Linda Schreyer, 2016.1.2 Greta Schreyer was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of a master goldsmith. She too became a master goldsmith and studied art in Vienna [...]
Burning Synagogue 3—Nasielsk, Poland Greta Schreyer (Vienna 1917-New York City 2005) Oil on canvas, h. 24 x w. 30 in. USA, 1999 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Linda Schreyer, 2015.47.2 Greta Schreyer was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of a master goldsmith. She too became a master goldsmith and studied art in Vienna [...]
Burning Synagogue 2—Narowla, Poland Greta Schreyer (Vienna, Austria 1917—New York City 2005) Oil on canvas, h. 24 x w. 30 in. USA, 1999 Cincinnati Skirball Museum, gift of Linda Schreyer, 2015.47.1 Greta Schreyer was born in Vienna, Austria, the daughter of a master goldsmith. She too became a master goldsmith and studied art in Vienna [...]
