Object ID
2021.1.118
Object Name
Collage
Date
8-24-1944
Files
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Description
Collage of Raoul Wallenberg letter, photograph and plaque.
Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:
A Letter of Exemption signed by Raoul Wallenberg issued August 24, 1944, designed to protect the daughter of a Hungarian art collector by identifying her as a Swedish subject thereby exempting her from wearing the yellow star and ultimately safeguarding her from deportation and murder in the Nazi death camps. Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews from extermination during WWII.
Dimensions
18 x 21 1/2"
Keywords
Raoul Wallenberg
Subcollection
Diplomats, Material
Recommended Citation
"Letter of Exemption signed by Wallenberg" (1944). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.118.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1847
