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Odenheimer Herbert
Odenheimer, today Ehud Loeb, a Holocaust survivor who was a ward of
the children’s home at Chateau Chabbanes in France during the war,
visited the “No Child’s Play” exhibition when it first opened.
He was particularly drawn to the chessboard which seemed strangely
familiar to him. The board was signed at the bottom right-hand
corner with the name “Herbert”.
A telephone call made to the OSE in France – a Jewish
relief organization that ran the home – verified that there had
been only one Herbert at Chateau Chabannes during the war.
Loeb was astonished to realize that the chessboard he had
made as a child was, so many years later,
part of the “No Child’s Play” exhibition at Yad Vashem.
Throughout his life, Ehud Loeb has been involved in the art world.
He is the former registrar at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, where
he lives today.
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