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Title(s):
Straw work and photographs from the Ilag V concentration camp in Liebenau, Germany, collected by Constance Lloyd.
Published/Created:
Liebenau, Germany, 1941-1945.
Physical Description:
12 items
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D805.G3 I42 Flat A
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:
http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16471550
Classification:
Three-Dimensional Artifacts
Subject Terms:
Ilag V (Concentration camp)
Liebenau (Lower Saxony, Germany)
Lloyd, Constance.
Prisoner-of-war camps -- Germany.
Prisoners of war -- Germany.
World War, 1939–1945.
Form/Genre:
Straw work.
Contributors:
Lloyd, Constance.
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  • The collection comprises: [1] A straw-work biplane with RAF roundels
  • [2] A straw work sailing ship labelled "American Liebenau camp" flying the Polish flag, with inscription to bottom "To the charming and jolly captain Miss Lloyd in remembrance E. Ciekowska Liebenau, 14.2.43"
  • [3] A coloured straw work doll with note "Model of a Polish doll in Cracow peasant costume made of Red X string by a Polish American girl of 20 yrs whilst interned at Liebenau Camp Germany 1943"
  • [4] A red and blue bookmark with note "made with silks on lace cushion by a Polish-American girl of 16 yrs Germany Camp 1943"
  • [5] A straw album given to Constance Lloyd ("Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 1943") with two photographs on the cover (internees posing in a nativity scene, and St Joseph's House at Liebenau with an arrow pointing to ‘my bedroom’); includes five pages of signatures of British and American internees (mostly women), with an inscribed photo of Mrs Rose Novak
  • [6] A straw work box with knitted cigarette to lid, ‘Liebenau’ embroidered on front, and a black and white photograph of a group of nuns underneath
  • [7] A miniature straw hat
  • [8] A small box embroidered with "Bon voyage 1945" and a picture of a train
  • [9] A floral brooch with note "made of paper & glazed by Polish American internees in Germany"
  • [10] A matchbox from Austria
  • [11] A small Union Jack brooch made from coloured beads
  • [12] Ten black and white photographs of women internees, with notes/inscriptions to Constance Lloyd on the backs, including Greek and American internees and Lloyd herself.

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