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The Stern brothers, Baruch and Mose, came to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) in the mid 1930s. Their 4 sisters – Regina, Frida, Emma and Rosa – stayed in Galanta, then Czechoslovakia, to take care of their parents. It is through photos recently submitted to Yad Vashem by Baruch's daughter, Yael Aharoni, that she was able to see the aunts she had never known in person. When World War II broke out, Baruch and Mose did their best to bring their family to safety, but were unsuccessful. In June, 1946, in a note to the Jewish community in Galanta submitted as part of the family collection, Baruch desperately tried to find out what had become of his family, pleading, "This is all I have left of them". The response confirmed his family's tragic fate: they were among the 1359 Jews deported from Galanta to Auschwitz in June 1944 and murdered there. In their last note, written just a few weeks earlier, Baruch's parents had expressed their wish to see him again soon. Click the link in our bio to see the letters and documents that Yael Aharoni submitted to Yad Vashem. . . #yadvashem #history #archive #holocaust #familistory #familyhistory #israel #gatheringthefragments
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A street in the Jewish Quarter of Vilna, prewar. On the 23rd and 24th of September 1943 the Vilna ghetto was liquidated. 1,600 – 2,000 men were sent to camps in Estonia and 1,400 – 1,700 women were sent to Latvia. In November 1944 fewer than 100 survivors returned to Vilna from the camps. . . #yadvashem #vilna #vilnus #latvia #holocaust #holocausthistory #history #WWII #ww2 #worldwar2 #וילנה
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Simone and Adrien Chaye lived in Neuilly, a suburb on the outskirts of Paris. During the occupation, Simone Chaye was active in the underground movement MNCR (Mouvement National Contre le Racisme). Simone was looking for families that agreed to take the risk of hiding Jewish children, raised donations and provided forged papers. Additionally, between 1942 and 1944 Chaye and her husband took in 3 children whose parents had been arrested and deported. After the liberation, Simone and Adrien Chaye played an active role in founding Renouveau, an organization that established a home in Montmorency (near Paris) for the 60 children rescued by the MNCR whose parents never returned. On September 23, 1997, Yad Vashem recognized Simone and Adrien Chaye as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #worldwar2 #humanity #righteousamongthenations #paris #france #otd
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Leo (Lev) Haas (1901-1983). “Transport Arrival, Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942”. India ink and wash on paper, 37.7 x 49.2 cm. Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem. – 1983, Berlin Leo Haas was born in 1901, Opava, Moravia. He graduated from the Academies of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and Berlin. Haas was arrested in 1939 on account of being a member of the Communist party and his activities therein; he was expelled to the Nisko camp, then to forced labor in Ostrava. In September 1942 he was transported to the Theresienstadt ghetto. There he worked on propaganda materials for the Germans, but together with other artists he secretly painted scenes of ghetto life. In October 1944 Haas was deported to Auschwitz; one month later, he was transported to the Sachsenhausen camp. In February 1945 he was transported to the Mauthausen and Ebensee camps, where he was liberated. After the war, Haas retrieved about four hundred of his paintings from the ghetto. Haas and his wife later adopted the 3-year-old son, Tommy (Tomáš), of their artist friend Bedřich Fritta who was murdered in Auschwitz. . . #yadvashem #art #artwork #artmuseum #instamuseum #history #holocaust #shoa #worldwar2 #opava #leohaas #auschwitz
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Riva and Aron Belenky on their wedding day, November 8, 1934, Pochep, Russia (USSR). Riva, Aron and their son David (b. 1940) were murdered during the Holocaust in their hometown, together with many other Jews of Pochep. The Germans occupied Pochep on August 22, 1941. Only a few Jews succeeded in escaping from the town. In November 1941 the Jews of Pochep were forced into 2 ghettos, each surrounded by barbed wire: one for men and the other for women and children. The conditions in the ghettos were appalling and the mortality rates high. On 15-16 March 1942 about 1,800 inmates from the ghettos were shot to death by the Germans and their local accomplices. The Red Army liberated Pochep on September 21, 1943. . . #yadvashem #history #worldwar2 #wwii #holocaust #shoa #pochep #russia #ussr #redarmy
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“May You be Inscribed for a Good Year!” Check our Story or click the link in our bio to explore a very special online exhibition featuring greeting cards, ritual items, testimony and artifacts offering a glimpse into how Jews before, during and immediately after the Holocaust observed the Jewish New Year. . . #yadvashem #roshhashana #jewishnewyear #newyear #newyearpostcard #postcard #jews #jewish #praying #torahreading #NewYearPrayer
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New Year's card that 12-year-old Flore Henle wrote to her parents, Leopold and Jenny. 30 September 1932, Lehrensteinsfeld, Germany: "Rosh Hashanah According to the religious custom that teaches us about the first day of the year, You see your child in your midst and I offer you my wishes: Wealth and goods, earthly happiness and joy. Good people, I wish you not only this, but also that God in his mercy grant you both health and wellbeing." In August 1939, Flore managed to leave Germany and reach England. There, she obtained an entry permit to Eretz Israel, reaching her destination via Egypt in March 1940. Her parents stayed in Germany. Leopold Henle died in August 1940. His wife Jenny was deported from Stuttgart to Latvia on 1 December 1941. She was murdered in the Jungfernhof camp in March 1942. . . #yadvashem #roshhashana #jewishnewyear #newyear #postcard #lehrensteinsfeld #germany #israel #holocaust #worldwar2 #history
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To all of you who have joined, liked, shared and/or positively engaged with us over this past year, we want to wish you a happy and healthy New Year on behalf of the Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate, Avner Shalev, and the Chairman of the Yad Vashem Council, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau. Illustration: Abba Fenichel (Mielec, Poland, 1906 - Israel, 1986) Winter Camps in Cyprus, Cyprus, 1948 Crayon on paper, 23x30.7 cm Collection of the Yad Vashem Art Museum, Jerusalem . . #yadvashem #roshhashana #jewishnewyear #newyear #postcard #cyprus #israel #artmuseum #art #museum
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"Shana Tova" (Happy New Year) card with a portrait of Henia Lubliner, which she sent from Siedlce, Poland to her sister Esther Herz in Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) before the war. In 1934, Esther married Simcha-Bunem Kramash-Knaani, a member of the "Poalei Agudat Israel" in Siedlce. The same year, they immigrated to Eretz Israel and settled in Haifa. Esther corresponded with her family – mother Sima, stepfather Nachum and their 5 children. In August 1942, Sima, Nachum and their children were deported from Siedlce to the Treblinka extermination camp. . . #yadvashem #roshhashana #jewishnewyear #newyear #postcard #siedlce #poland #israel #holocaust #worldwar2 #history
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Hebrew calendar drawn by Moshe Menachem Herstik in the Ilia camp, being restored at Yad Vashem's Preservation and Restoration Laboratory. Moshe and Rachel Herstik lived in the town of Lupeni in southern Transnistria, Romania, with their 9 children. In July 1941, the Herstiks were deported from Lupeni, leaving all their belongings behind. At Ilia, Moshe managed to establish a synagogue and study room for children in one of the camp rooms. Reconstructing a calendar from memory requires effort and a great deal of prior knowledge, and under these circumstances, was potentially life-threatening. The determination to know the date each day, to mark the Sabbath and Jewish festivals, to be in essence a master of his own time, enabled Moshe Herstik to preserve his humanity and his Jewish spirit. Click the link in our bio to read the full story. . . #yadvashem #roshhashana #jewishnewyear #restoration #romania #jewishcalendar #calendar #holocaust #worldwar2 #history
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Franziska Rosanis was born in Jaroslau, Poland in 1900 to Adolf and Ester Kranner. Prior to WWII she, her husband Leopold Rosanis and their daughter Susanne lived in Sankt-Veit-Gasse 6, Vienna, Austria. Franziska was deported from Vienna to the Minsk Ghetto (Belarus), where she was murdered on September 14, 1942. Her husband Leopold was deported to the territory of the USSR. His fate is unknown. The photographs and Pages of Testimony in their memory were submitted to Yad Vashem by their daughter Susanne Stuby (nee Rosanis), who survived the Holocaust. . . #yadvashem #history #holocaust #holocausto #shoa #worldwar2 #jewishhistory #jaroslau #vienna #minskghetto
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Petras and Ona Mikuličius lived in Kaunas with their 3 children. They became acquainted with Klara Gelman following the German occupation of the city – she was in a forced labor camp located not far from their home. In the winter of 1942/43 Gelman approached the Mikuličiuses and asked them to shelter her 2-year-old niece Julija Remigolsky. Despite the risk, the Mikuličiuses took the Jewish toddler into their family and treated her as if she were their own daughter. She was introduced to the neighbors as the daughter of Mikuličienė’s sister, who had passed away. But Julija spoke only Yiddish and it could have raised suspicions. For that reason the Mikuličius family decided to move to the countryside, where they stayed until the Red Army arrived. Although they became very attached to the Jewish child, the Mikuličiuses returned Julija to her mother, Menucha Remigolsky, when the German occupation ended, and they immigrated to Canada. On September 13, 1995, Yad Vashem recognized Petras Mikuličius and Ona Mikuličienė as Righteous Among the Nations. . . #yadvashem #righteousamongthenations #worldwar2 #holocaust #shoa #humanity #kaunas #lithuania
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A soccer match in a DP camp in Germany after the war. In addition to political and cultural activities in the DP camps, sports clubs were established and competitions organized. Sporting events were of great significance to the survivors, since they emphasized their independence and will power on the one hand, and signified a return to normality on the other. Every DP newspaper included a sports section, and sporting events announcements could always be found in the advertising columns. . . #yadvashem #history #soccer #football #sport #soccermatch #footballmatch #soccerteam #jewishhistory #postwar
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Treasures of the Red Box: Luba Ram reconstructing her family stories through photos from the past. Of the five girls in this photo, taken in Luba's hometown of Iwje, Poland, only Luba (second from right) and her younger sister, Cyla (first left), survived. Luba's parents found these photos lying scattered on the damp cellar floor when they returned to Iwje with their daughters from the Bielski brothers’ Family Camp after liberation. After their immigration to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) in 1946, photos of their new life were put into a red tin chocolate box together with photos they had been able to recover of their murdered loved ones. Luba's parents shared the treasures of the red box with their daughters and grandchildren. At the age of 90, Luba decided to share them with Yad Vashem for safekeeping for posterity. . . #yadvashem #history #archive #holocaust #familistory #familyhistory #israel #gatheringthefragments #iwje #poland
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Alytus, Lithuania, prewar, a street view. Jewish settlement in Alytus traces back to the 16th century. The majority of Jews were engaged in trade, crafts, light industry and agriculture. In 1940, at the time of the Soviet annexation of Lithuania, the Jewish population of Alytus numbered 1,730 people, comprising 17.5% of the total population. During this period, factories and local businesses were nationalized, a measure that severely impacted the Jewish community. The German army occupied Alytus between June 22 and 24, 1941. Local Jews, along with those from the neighboring towns of Varena, Butrimonys and Merkine, were forced into a ghetto formed in the town at the beginning of September 1941. The Jews of Alytus and some towns in the vicinity were the victims of a number of murder operations in July-September 1941. The ghetto was liquidated on September 9, 1941, when all its inmates were murdered. The Red Army liberated Alytus on July 15, 1944. . . #yadvashem #history #alytus #lithuania #jewishhistory #holocaust #shoa #worldwar2
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September 1941, Jews in a Hungarian forced labor battalion. Forced labor service was implemented in Hungary in the 1930s when Jews were enlisted in these battalions after their military service. This took place simultaneously with the introduction of discriminatory laws against the Jews. The Jews in the labor battalions did not receive weapons, and later on did not even receive soldiers’ uniforms. They served in separate units, in battalions and divisions under non-Jewish command. They worked primarily in varied labor for the army, such as laying railroad track and fixing broken track, digging defensive ditches and anti-tank trenches and the like. The Jews were discriminated against and publicly humiliated. The Jews worked in these battalions both within Hungary and beyond her borders, on the Ukrainian and Serbian fronts, until the Germans conquered Hungary in March 1944. Approx. 42,000 Jews died in these units. . . #yadvashem #history #worldwar2 #wwii #hungary #holocaust #shoa
