Straw work and photographs from the Ilag V concentration camp in Liebenau, Germany, collected by Constance Lloyd, 1941-1945
- 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:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- 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.
- Export:
- XML
- 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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