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Textile Details 'Table napkin' Used by Eva Herzfeld & Vinko Bacic. (Photo: Martin Melaugh)
Title of Textile:	Table napkin
Maker:	Used by Eva Herzfeld & Vinko Bacic
Country of Origin:	Naples refugee camp
Year Produced:	N/A
Size (cm):
Materials:	Linen/cotton mix
Type of Textile:	Memorabilia
Description:	This white, cotton napkin was used as a table cloth by Eva Herzfeld & Vinko Bacic, 1945/1948, during their stay at a refugee camp in Naples and en route on a ship carrying Red Cross refugees from Europe to Argentina and Chile after World War II.
Owner:	Conflict Textiles collection
Location:	Conflict Textiles store
Original / Replica:	Original
Photographer:	Martin Melaugh
Provenance:	Heirloom from the Bacic-Herzfeld family. (HM0724)

Textile exhibited at:

Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 17/11/2014 - 18/11/2014
Textile Accounts of Conflicts, 6/02/2015 - 7/03/2015
Remembering the Holocaust, 8/01/2018 - 27/01/2018
Torn from Home: Remembering the Holocaust , 10/01/2019 - 28/02/2019
Tkanine otpora: glasovi žena / Textiles of Resistance: Women's Voices , 14/09/2019 - 30/09/2019
From Home to Here: Stories of Languages Old and New, 5/11/2019 - 20/12/2019
Light during the darkness: Remembering the Holocaust, 18/01/2021 - 1/02/2021

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