Staszow, Poland, 25/06/1925, a local football team. From the collection of 113 photographs taken before, during and after the Holocaust and documenting the story of the Jewish community of Staszow. . . #yadvashem #photofriday #soccer #football #soccerteam #footballteam #staszow #prewar #bnw 
The Rodkin family of Orsha, Belarus, fleeing eastwards in June 1941, before the arrival of the Germans to their town. On the eve of World War II, some 8000 Jews lived in Orsha, Belarus, out of a total population of 40,000. On 16 July 1941, less than a month after the Rodkins left Orsha, the town was occupied by the Germans. The murder of the Jews of Orsha began in August, and a ghetto was established in the town in September. By spring 1942, all the Jews of Orsha had been murdered. Jakov Rodkin, who took this photograph, fell in battle fighting in the ranks of the Red Army on January 30, 1943. . . #yadvashem #history #holocaust #worldwar2 #orsha #belarus 
USSR, 1941, Operation Barbarossa - the local population looks on at the destruction of a village. On 22 June 1941, Nazi Germany launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union known as "Operation Barbarossa". This was a turning point in World War II and in the fate of the Jews. Click the link in our bio to explore the online exhibition “The Onset of Mass Murder. The Fate of Jewish Families in 1941”. This exhibition tells the stories of Jewish families in the wake of "Operation Barbarossa", and their ultimate fate in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Eastern Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Romania and Yugoslavia. . . #yadvashem #history #operationbarbarossa #ussr #worldwar2 #holocaust 
Barber tools that Joseph Top took with him when he fled Poland with his family to Soviet territory. Like many other Polish refugees, Joseph and Rivka refused to accept Soviet citizenship so they were sent to Siberia, where they were assigned to forced labor felling trees. Once a week, Joseph would walk to a local power station with his barber tools, where he would shave and cut the hair of the Russian workers in exchange for food. The family stayed in Siberia for two years, until the Soviet authorities released them at the end of 1941 and they were able to make their way to Uzbekistan, and after the war – to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine). . . #yadvashem #yadvahsemmuseum #holocaust #shoah #barber #worldwar2 #WWII #siberia #uzbekistan #israel 
Jews being deported to the Kutno Ghetto, June 1940. Kutno, Poland, a city with a Jewish presence from the 15th century, was home to about 6,700 Jews on the eve of WWII. The vast majority of the Jews of Kutno perished during the Holocaust, from either the horrific conditions in the ghetto or in the Chelmno death camp. Only 213 members of the Jewish community of Kutno survived the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #holocaust #shoah #kutnoghetto #otd #chelmno #bnw 
Roger and Marguerite Blaquières lived with their only daughter, Irène (b. 1926), on a small farm in the Haute-Garonne department of France. Between 1942 and 1944 they sheltered a Jewish man, Alfred Cahn (b. 1900), who had fled the German persecutions. For more than two years, Alfred Cahn stayed with the Blaquières on their farm, despite the severe lack of food and supplies. In exchange for his hiding place, Alfred helped with the daily chores on the farm. Whenever they sensed that the farm might be searched, Alfred would run and hide in the fields beyond the farm, where Roger would arrange for him to stay under piles of straw. After the liberation Alfred reunited with his wife and child, who also survived the Holocaust. They returned to Paris, but always stayed in contact with the Blaquières. On June 16, 2014, Yad Vashem recognized Roger and Marguerite (Lagardelle) Blaquières as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #france #history #holocaust #holocausthistory #shoa #WWII #worldwar2 #bnw 
June 14, 1942, Eli Asher and Flori Tal on their wedding day, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Eli, Flori and her parents Greta and Felix Tal survived the Holocaust in hiding in Amsterdam and immigrated to Erez Israel (Mandatory Palestine) in 1947. With the outbreak of World War II, Flori’s younger brother Willy Tal found work with the Jewish Council as a male nurse in the Jewish Hospital for the mentally disturbed. This gave him a temporary reprieve from deportation. On January 21, 1943, by order of Eichmann, in conjunction with Gemmeker, the Kommandant of Westerbork transit camp, some 900 mentally disturbed patients and 500 hospital staff were deported to Auschwitz. Though there was advanced warning of the round up, and some 100 workers went into hiding, Willy refused to abandon his patients and was sent with them to Auschwitz and murdered there on April 30, 1943. . . #yadvashem #wedding #weddingday #history #holocaust #amsterdam #israel 
Sewing machine used by Adolf Goldstein in the factory of Julius Madritsch, a Righteous Among the Nations, in Krakow, Poland. After the occupation of Poland, Julius Madritsch took over the management of two textile factories in the vicinity of the Krakow ghetto that had been confiscated from their original owner by the Germans. During the war some 2,000 Jewish workers were employed in these factories. Together with factory manager Raimund Titsch, he did what he could to employ as many Jews as he could, including those who were not skilled workers. In 1943, Madritsch and Titsch started to use Oswald Bouska (Bosko), a high-ranking policeman in the German ghetto police force, to smuggle Jews out of the ghetto to hiding places. Click the link in our bio to read the full story. #yadvashem #SewingMachineDay #WordsForTheFutureMW #worldwar2 #righteousamongthenations #humanity #sewingmachine 
Brugne, Czechoslovakia, postwar, youth in a Joint (@jdcjoint) summer camp for Jewish youth. . . #yadvashem #youth #summer #dancing #postwar #bnw 
Curt Herzstark holding the "Curta", a hand-held mechanical calculator that he invented during the Holocaust. Curt Herzstark from Vienna, the son of a Jewish father and an Austrian mother, was arrested and deported to the Buchenwald camp in 1943. When the camp commander discovered Curt's work on the pocket calculator, he allowed him to continue development on this invention, hoping to present the calculator to Hitler as a victory gift. Curt Herzstark survived the Holocaust. The production of the "Curta", based on the plans completed in Buchenwald, commenced in 1949. The "Curta" was produced until 1972, when it was superseded by the electronic calculator. Click the link in our bio to read the full story. . . #yadvashem #EurekaMW #museumweek #yadvashemmuseum #holocaustmuseum #calculator #ingeneering #buchenwald #israel #calculator 
Children eating in the Orthodox Jewish home at 21 Twarda St., the Warsaw ghetto. A short time after Warsaw was occupied by the Germans, the Jewish community organized a social welfare committee known as the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Jewish Social Self-Help), or the ZSS, in order to provide social assistance to the Jewish residents. Funding for the activities came primarily from the Polish branch of the Joint. During the first half of 1940 the organization’s aid activities focused on opening public soup kitchens and distributing food to the needy, on taking in thousands of Jewish refugees and captives who were pouring into Warsaw, and establishing institutions for child care. . . #yadvashem #ChildrensEyesMW #museumweek #warsawghetto #history #holocausthistory #children 
Dusetos, Lithuania, prewar, the house of Rachel-Leah Poritz, on the way to the lake. The sign on the right reads: "B. Poritz - Small Grocery Shop". The sign in the center reads: "S. Tilindzes, Sewing Workshop". Standing at the balcony: Yitzchak Fleischman and his wife Batya (nee Poritz). Standing by the entrance: Rachel-Leah Poritz and her son Yitzchak. Rachel-Leah Poritz, Yitzchak and Batya Fleischman were murdered during the Holocaust in their hometown. Yitzchak Poritz survived and immigrated to Israel after the war. . . #yadvashem #OnceUponAtimeMW #museumweek #dusetos #lithuania #holocaust #history #family 
In the 1920s Michalina Gedmantienė studied in the academy of music in Kovno and became friends with Malka Zelikson (later Gurvich). Following the German occupation of Kovno, Malka and her daughter Liliana were put into the ghetto that was established in August 1941. Gedmantienė invited her friend with daughter to stay with her. Short time after they moved in with Gedmantienė, Malka insisted on returning to the ghetto because she felt she was endangering the lives of Gedmantienė and her two daughters. A few months later, after surviving two Aktions in the ghetto, Malka returned to Gedmantienė’s home, while her daughter Liliana was transferred to Germany by her father, who was of German ancestry. Until the end of the occupation, Zelikson stayed in Gedmantienė’s home, where she received devoted care. Michalina also gave shelter in her home to another Jewish woman from ghetto, Stefania Kačelnikova. Both Jewish women survived the Holocaust, and later immigrated to Israel. On June 6, 1993, Yad Vashem recognized Michalina Gedmantienė as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #history #righteousamongthenations #humanity #worldwar2 #kovno #kaunas #holocaust 
Piryatin, Ukraine, the Jewish elementary school, June 3, 1929. Jews first settled in Piryatin at the beginning of the 17th century. In 1939 Piryatin's 1,747 Jews comprised 13% of the total population. The Germans occupied Piryatin on September 18, 1941 and immediately concentrated the Jews into a ghetto that encompassed three streets. During mass murder operations in April 1942 and later 1,600 Jews were killed. On May 18, 1942 dozens of Jews from Piryatin were shot in the town. Piryatin was liberated by the Red Army on September 17, 1943. . . #yadvashem #piryatin #ukraine #history #jewishcommunity #children #school #elementaryschool #holocaust #worldwar2 #bnw 
Mendel Bron was born in Lodz, Poland, on December 17, 1893 in the family of Pinhes and Sura- Guitle Bron. Being a professional tailor, he moved to France prior to WWII and lived in Rue Marx Dormoy in Paris. On March 4, 1943 Mendel Bron was deported with transport #50 from Drancy to Sobibor and later to Auschwitz, where he was murdered. This information and photograph was submitted to Yad Vashem by Mendel’s niece, Rosine Bron. . . #yadvashem #NationalTailorsDay #TailorsDay #history #holocaust #tailor #paris #portrait 
Augustow, Poland, members of ‘Hechalutz Hatzair’ youth movement from Luzki at the agricultural camp. The first reference to Jewish settlement in Łużki, Poland (today Belarus) dates to the 18th century. In 1859 the founder of modern Hebrew Eliezer Ben-Yehuda was born in the town. On the eve of World War II 458 Jews lived in Łużki, where they worked in petty trade and at simple crafts. On September 17, 1939 the Red Army entered Łużki and established Soviet rule there. On June 22, 1941, the start of the German invasion of the USSR, the Soviet troops withdrew and within a few days Łużki was occupied by the Germans. On June 1, 1942- 528 local Jews were killed in a single mass murder. Łużki was liberated by the Red Army in June 1944. . . #yadvashem #jewishcommunity #history #augustow #luzki #holocaust #worldwar2 #wwii