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    Artist

  • Jacoby, Hans

    • Title

  • Interior of Hoek Internment Camp Cabin, Holland

  • Physical Description

    Watercolor ; 6 in. x 7.75 in. ; 15.5 x 20 cm

  • Date

    1939

  • Place of Publication

    Holland

  • Summary

    This is the cabin where Jacoby was incarcerated after crossing over into Holland illegally. Two camp beds are shown with a barred window beyond. See the archival collection AR 4847 for additional information.

  • Subject

    Nazi concentration camps; World War, 1939-1945

  • Medium

    Paintings; Drawings; Watercolors

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Hans Jacoby, born on September 6, 1900 in Dresden and married to Emma Jacoby, was educated as an artist (painter). As an illegal refugee Jacoby left Germany for Holland in 1938 and was interned in the Hoek van Holland camp, an internment location for refugees that were considered illegal by the Dutch government. On April 28, 1940, he emigrated to Shanghai, where he took courses at the Jüdische Gemeinde Shanghai and at the Asia Seminar. The latter, founded in 1943, was a seminar of academic lectures. The courses were dealing with languages, Chinese philosophy and law. The Asia Seminar continued until 1948. Jacoby moved to the United States in 1947. He has lived mostly in Miami. One of his pictures of Golda Meir was displayed at The Miami Jewish Federation.

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Jacoby, Hans: Interior of Hoek Internment Camp Cabin, Holland, Leo Baeck Institute, 80.240.