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- Jacques Lipchitz 1891–1973
- Recipient
- Cesare Sofianopulo 1889 – 1968
- Title
- Draft letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Cesare Sofianopulo
- Date
- [1940]
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Rubin Lipchitz, March 1989; the cataloguing and selective digitisation of this archive collection was supported by Mr Timm Bergold, 2023
- Reference
- TGA 897/1/1/353/1
Description
Lipchitz asks 'Cesare' to help him to reunite with his niece Ira Kon, an orphan of 18 years old, the daughter of his sister [Zhenya or Eugenia, who died in 1928] 'who, dying, entrusted her daughter to my care'. Lipchitz describes that he and Rubin were planning to transfer Ira from Warsaw to Paris to continue her studies, but then the war started. Only via Red Cross he found out that Ira is alive, and is hiding at a friendly family.Lipchitz asks Cesare to help her via Italian embassy in Warsaw, and to send her to Trieste.
These plans did not suceeded, Ira was killed by Nazis soon.
Archive context
- Personal and professional papers of Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897 (451)
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- Correspondence TGA 897/1 (212)
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- Correspondence to and from Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1 (183)
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- Correspondence between Cesare Sofianopulo and Jacques Lipchitz TGA 897/1/1/353 (1)
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- Draft letter from Jacques Lipchitz to Cesare Sofianopulo TGA 897/1/1/353/1