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Stitching History from the Holocaust

Season 3 Episode 7 | 23m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

The Jewish Museum Milwaukee's "Stitching History from the Holocaust" exhibit is explored.

The powerful exhibit at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, "Stitching History from the Holocaust" tells the story of Paul and Hedwig "Hedy" Strnad, a Jewish couple living in Prague in 1939. Paul writes to his cousin Alvin in Milwaukee to get affidavits to emigrate from Czechoslovakia to the US, and hopes that his wife's dress designs will be the key to getting them passage to the US.

11/13/2014 | Rating NR

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The Arts Page

Stitching History from the Holocaust

Season 3 Episode 7 | 23m 59sVideo has Closed Captions

The powerful exhibit at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee, "Stitching History from the Holocaust" tells the story of Paul and Hedwig "Hedy" Strnad, a Jewish couple living in Prague in 1939. Paul writes to his cousin Alvin in Milwaukee to get affidavits to emigrate from Czechoslovakia to the US, and hopes that his wife's dress designs will be the key to getting them passage to the US.

11/13/2014 | Rating NR

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