Stitching History from the Holocaust
In 1997, the Strnad family in Milwaukee found an envelope bearing the Nazi seal while cleaning out their mother’s basement. Inside was a letter from 1939 written by Paul Strnad. Paul asked his cousin Alvin to help him secure an affidavit for he and his wife, Hedy, to escape Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia. Paul explained that Hedy was a dressmaker and included eight of her designs as proof of her talent.
Paul and Hedy did not survive the Holocaust. But her dress designs did.
More information: http://stitchinghistory.org/exhibit-rental/
Living Designs & Shared Values: Highlights from the Jane P. Fitzpatrick Quilt Collection
Thanks to a generous gift from the
Fitzpatrick family, Hancock Shaker
Village is now home to a wonderful
collection of American quilts. This
exhibit showcases the highlights of that
the familiar patterns, and explores
women’s arts and entrepreneurship.
Please contact Lesley Herzberg, curator,
for more information.
More information:
hancockshakervillage.org/shakers/
museum/traveling-exhibitions-2/
collection, tracing the history of quilting,