Judith Leiber (born Judith Peto in 1921 in Budapest, Hungary) is a world-renowned designer of haute couture handbags. Judith Peto was the first woman to join the handbag-makers guild in Budapest. A Jew, she escaped the Holocaust of World War II to the safety of the Swiss house when her father was able to obtain a Swiss schutzpass, a document that gave the bearer safe passage(this pass is on view at the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC). Wikipedia
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"Judith Leiber's handbags are created with such exquisite workmanship and design that they transcend mere accessory. They become objets d'art ," says Stacey Schmidt , Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. "Judith has alwa www.corcoran.org/exhibitions/press_results.asp?Exhib_ID=22
