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  • Warenhaus Georg Lendt

    • Title

  • Needlekit

  • Physical Description

    1 needlekit : metal, cardboard ; 3 3/8" x 2 3/8", 8.4 cm x 7.3 cm, + cardboard sleeve

  • Date

    early 20th century

  • Summary

    Set of 11 needles of various sizes and types. These are stored inside a cardboard sleeve showing decorative silhouettes on both sides- one side shows a woman sitting under a tree sewing with a dog by her feet, the other side shows a woman and man standing under a tree while the woman sews something on the man's coat. The inside of the cardboard sleeve indicates that the kit is from the Georg Lendt department store in Göppingen: "Warenhaus Georg Lendt Göppingen, Erstklassige Kurzwaren in grosser Auswahl"

  • Subject

    Tailoring; Dressmaking materials; Sewing equipment and supplies

  • Medium

    Objects; Tools and equipment; Silhouettes

  • Part Of

    Kurt and Grete Goldsmith family collection, AR 25681

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Biographical/Historical Information

Margarete (Grete) Lendt was born on October 1st,1904 and married Kurt Goldsmith (Goldschmidt) in 1931. Georg Lendt and Mathilde, née Dahlberg, owned a large department store in Göppingen, which they were forced to sell after financial and material damages sustained during the Kristallnacht in 1938. During the night of November 9th to 10th, 1938, the Lendt department store was attacked by SA-Obersturmbannführer Otto Schraag, who tore his way through the store and into the private living quarters of the family. Their adult daughter, Grete Goldsmith, was visiting her parents that day and witnessed these horrible events take place. Mathilde passed away in 1940 from cancer and Georg Lendt was murdered in Mauthausen concentration camp on August 24, 1942.

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Warenhaus Georg Lendt: Needlekit, Leo Baeck Institute, 2023.73.