Monday, July 28, 2014

THE DOLL'S HOUSE

1938- The Landsman daughter Julie completed the final piece of the doll's house
          a tiny green sofa

1939- the  dolls's house removed by neighbors now in hands of a Gestapo man.

1940- Sold to a pawnbroker in occupied Belgium.

1941- Bought by a Nazi soldier.

1942- Taken from him by a higher ranked German officer.

1943- One piece, the green sofa has arrived at a transit station in Warsaw.

1944- Art dealer finds it in Amsterdam.

1945-Auctioned off, bought by an American G.I for his daughter.

1946- The doll's house minus the sofa located by a New York City pawnbroker.

1947- Julie Landsman, the only survivor in her family walks by a lower Manhattan pawnbroker shop, finds the doll's house like hers. She never comes back to the shop.

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