The portrait drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Ralph M. Hockley.
Portrait drawing in pencil and watercolor on paper. lower right
overall: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm)
Portrait of a German Jewish refugee
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Watercolor and pencil portrait of Rudi Hockenheimer (later Ralph Hockley) painted by G.W. Mooy, another refugee in 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Rudi, his parents, Julius and Lilli, and his sister Marianne escaped from Nazi Germany to Marseille, France. Julius was held in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps of Les Milles and Gurs. But in 1940, the family left for the United States on the ship Winnipeg, sailing by way of Trinidad.