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The Story Behind the Artifact

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Miriam and Sara Goldstein hold photographs of themselves in costume, during the Holocaust and today

Sisters Recall Family Traditions

Anna and Itzhac on their wedding day, Bukovina, Romania

Clear Colorful Days

A map showing "The Trail of the Rainbow " – the route taken by the 42nd Infantry Rainbow Division of the American Army through Europe. It is covered with messages from the soldiers to Marcel.

A map showing the route taken by the 42nd Division of the American Army covered with messages to the survivor Marcel Levi

Simion Mamistvalov's medals

Simion Mamistvalov - A Jewish Soldier in the Red Army

Jeanette and Julius Schocken

Shattered Dreams

The bracelet with prisoner numbers that Lore Bender made

My Thoughts are Free

Miryam Elizabeth Herbst and Moshe Ladislav Sarvasi's handwritten Ketubah from Bergen Belsen DP camp

An Original Ketubah Written from Memory in Bergen-Belsen

The Shuchman family before the war. From left: Ben-Zion, Rachel and their daughter Eugenia

Notes Written on Prescriptions

Yudke and Tzila Sharfman with their daughter Hanna by the entrance of the family's shop, 1930

"The White Sheet Wasn't There"

The final entries in Alexander’s notebook

A Notebook from Schindler's Factory

Gershon (Grisha) and Eva Shapira, who were murdered together with their one-year-old baby in the Aktion described by Nura in her letter.

"I Will Tell You How Our Relatives’ Lives Ended"

The photograph of Anny Tzchori that Pawel kept throughout the war

"The Photograph was a Piece of Normality"

The album cover

"Be strong, my heart will cope silently"

The album that the other camp inmates made Yochit for her birthday

Materially Lacking but Rich in Spirit

The flag that was sewn in the Wetzlar DP camp

"The Flag Gave Us Hope that We Would Have a State"

Barbara with her nanny Stanislawa

"My Nanny Was With Me Throughout the War"

Rachel with her parents, Ludvik and Emilia Korody, 1944

"I Don’t Remember My Name"

Bela and Shmuel Winokur, Dwora's parents, circa 1930

Rescue on the Brink of the Abyss

The wallet that protected Dov from being injured by a bullet in his hiding place in Warsaw. The stick passes through the bullet holes.

Wallet that protected Dov Weissberg from being injured by a bullet in his hiding place in Warsaw

Anatoly Konovich, aged 15

A 15-Year-Old Soldier

Miriam as a child

Arithmetics in Hiding

Vera and her doll Lala, Karachi, India

A Doll From a Distant Land – The Story of Vera Brand née Lifshitz

The Leiderman family, Capresti, 1932. From right: Tzvi, Yenta, Zalman and David

Today is my birthday

Siegfried Rapaport, c. 1938.

"When I Get Some Bread, I’ll Send It To You"

The Herstik family, Sighet, 5 October 1942

"My Last Words to You"

The first page of David Horowicz's diary

David Horowicz's Diary

Dalia Kornblit (as Danuta / Danusia Vitolin) with Zosia Perkowska.

"Be Healthy and Happy"

The wallet and the lock of hair

A Wallet with a Lock of Hair

The first page of Lajos's letter to his parents

"I think that they are planning to empty the country of Jews"

A photograph of Anna Ventura with her four children that she sent to her husband Luigi when he was in Paris in 1940.

"All My Thoughts Are of You" – A Postcard from the Death-Train

Marianne and Robert Weil, Utrecht, August 1941

Dear Mutti: Two children write to their mother

Rosa and Cezar Kaufman, Ziegmond Kaufman’s parents

"I wish you all the best if we do not see each other again"

A class photo of the primary school in Kněždub. Anda is 4th from left in the back row.

"It's Very Cold Here"

Leah’s parents, Dina and Haim Lipschitz, and her brother Binyamin

Always love the good, the beautiful and the noble

Family photograph from 1938: Parents Haim and Rifca with baby Moshe and and aunt Guste (standing at the back)

"We are Healthy in the Katsmazov Ghetto"

The Tunik Family, 1930

"Nothing Remains of Stolpce" – The Story of the Tunik Family

Miriam Eisenberg née Eilenberg standing by her mother Chava's grave

A Sack of Memories

Unity Despite Everything

Unity Despite Everything

A page from the guestbook with a portrait of the pension owner Yitzhak Eliyahu Pines

A Lantern for Passersby

The letter from Arnold Rosenfeld in Vienna to his son Haim (Robert) in Haifa

From the Yad Vashem Archives: A Letter From Vienna Describing the Events of Kristallnacht

The blouse that Chana Kuklinska wore throughout her time in the camps

The Fabric of Memory

Helene (Helenuchka) Szyrgik

Helenuchka Szyrgik's Bracelet

The comb that Janka, Shlomo's mother, traded in Auschwitz in exchange for a full day's ration of bread

The Most Precious Thing

A plan of the Asino labor camp in the Tomsk region of Siberia, sketched by Emil, Elina's brother, while they were in the camp

A Map for Her Birthday

The watch that Zmira bought in exchange for a loaf of bread, upon her arrival at Bergen-Belsen

A Watch from Bergen-Belsen

The birthday card that Bertha's friends made for her at the convalescent home in Karlstad after the war

A Birthday Card

The box on which Jacob Marmorosch engraved the names of the camps through which he passed

The Box from Captivity

Moritz Birenberg's football referee certificate, issued by the Romanian Football Association on 16 March 1940

A Football Referee in Transnistria

Members of the Szwarcfuter and Szyslewski families at Yocheved Zilberstein's grandfather's stone setting

Stone-Setting

Page 119a of tractate Bava Metsia with a penciled dedication in Hebrew

"Till the Redeemer Comes..."

The Hebrew calendar prepared by Moshe Menachem-Mendel Hershtik in the Ilia labor camp

A Calendar Produced From Memory

A forged identity card in the name of Antoinette Marie Bergs issued in Achel, Belgium on 10 March 1940 for Tauba Edelsztejn.

Living Under An Assumed Identity In A Strange Land

The photograph of Pessi's family

Photographs in a Slice of Bread

Ania Kaplan's dress

Only Her Dress Remains

Rabbi Uri Feivish Tauber's diary

Rabbi Tauber's Diary

The prayer-book that Haya Iren-Shtern wrote from memory

A Siddur (Prayer Book) Written From Memory

The piece of paper with the word "Liber" (Romanian for "free").

"The Note That Saved Our Lives"

The Portrait of Shoshana Levinger

A Portrait in Exchange for a Cracker

Nach Treblinka

To Be Remembered Forever!!! For My Little Friend

24-hour exit permit from the Falesti camp in the name of Itic (Yitzhak) Rosner in order to visit his son in Iasi, Romania dated 28 April 1944

Cross-Border Yearnings

Jewish children in the children's home in Cluj after the war, among them the young twins Eliyahu and Yaakov Malek.

"Mengele's Twins"

Bela and Aliza Eckstein's passport

From Place to Place

The postcard that Roza threw from the train when she was being deported to Ravensbrück

A Postcard From the Journey

The parting letter that Zvi and Rivka Weisman sent their children, Lonek and Chaim Akiva in Eretz Israel on 9 April, 1943 from the Czortkow ghetto

"The final story begins now..."

The final letter from Menachem's family

A Final Letter to Menachem

The letter from Janusz Korczak

A Letter from Janusz Korczak

Miss Solodownik's diary

Between One Jew and Another

Cantor Arthur Kohn's music book, which was rescued from the ruins of the Mannheim Synagogue in Germany

Music Book Belonging to Cantor Arthur Kohn from the Mannheim Synagogue in Germany

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