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After returning home at the end of World War II, several German POWs sent wood carvings to Ernest Sibberson, a local Lutheran pastor, in thanks for his kindness to them during their forced stay in Topeka. Sibberson, who had immigrated to the United States as a teenager, was a native of Germany and spoke the language well. He regularly visited the POWs and held religious services for them at Winter General Hospital.
Date: between 1945 and 1950
Item Number: 220889
Call Number: 1996.5.3
KSHS Identifier: 1996.5.3
Collections - Museum
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Art - Folk
Date - 1940s
Military - Wars - World War II
Military - Wars - World War II - Homefront - Prisoner of war
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Original Art - Sculpture - Novelty
People - European Americans - Germans - Veterans
Places - International - Germany
Thematic Time Period - World War II, 1939 - 1945
Type of Material - Objects and Artifacts
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