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• Title:Straw work and photographs from the Ilag V concentration camp in Liebenau, Germany, collected by Constance Lloyd.
  
• Production:Liebenau, Germany, 1941-1945.
  
• Physical Description:12 items
  

• Yale Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: D805.G3 I42 Flat A
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
    

   
• Format:Visual Material
• Contents: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.
  
• Subjects:Lloyd, Constance.
  Ilag V (Concentration camp)
  Prisoner-of-war camps--Germany.
  Prisoners of war--Germany.
  World War, 1939-1945.
  Liebenau (Lower Saxony, Germany)
  
• Genre/Form:Straw work.
  
• Also listed under:Lloyd, Constance.