Freeze Frame
The One and Only
Casablanca, Morocco
Mikaela A\'s paternal grandmother Simi A only has this one picture from her wedding day. In this picture she is wearing a traditional Moroccan caftan called a kswa kbira which means big dress in arabic. This picture is important to Mikaela\'s family because it was very rare to have any pictures in 1947. That was the year that Simi got married. She is privileged to have this picture.
Mikaela and her family hope to pass it down to many more generations.
Picture
Dachau, Germany
Romy R, Eli B\'s maternal grandfather, found a picture of himself in the Jewish Journal, a Los Angeles newspaper in 1985. Romy\'s daughter, Gabriela B, located the original picture in the Simon Wiesnthal Holocaust Center in Los Angeles, California. This picture was taken in 1945 in the Dachau Concentration Camp when Romy was being liberated. On his right is a Greek man, and they are sharing a liberation meal from the Americans. In the camp, they would communicate to each other in French, since that was their common language. This is a special picture to Romy\'s family because it is rare to have a picture of someone being liberated from the concentration camp.
The picture should always remind people of what happened.
Picture
Poland
This object is originally from Poland. It belonged to Gabriel B’s maternal grandfather who got it from his uncle. The picture is important because a lot of people in the picture died in World War II. Gabriel’s family kept the picture so these relatives would be remembered.
The picture gave Gabriel’s grandfather’s family hope throughout the war.
Picture
United States
An important object in Yonatan B\'s family is a picture of his maternal grandfather when he was an American soldier in the Korean War. After immigrating to the United States after the Holocaust, he was drafted into the U.S army without even being an American citizen. This picture reminds Yonatan of his grandfather’s courage and bravery.
The photograph was obtained after his service in the war.
Pictures
Poland
Lauren R\'s maternal great-grandmother, Emily S, lost most of her family members in the Holocaust. She wrote a postcard to her cousin, Leon Steger, which had a picture of her on vacation.
There is another picture of Lauren R\'s great-aunt, Miriam Bronner. Miriam was Lauren\'s Zayda\'s sister. Miriam died when she was sixteen, when she was murdered at Auschwitz. There is also a picture of Lauren\'s grandmother, Dina, in the ghetto with her relatives.
These pictures are the only ones that the family has of their family lost in the Holocaust.
Picture
Lower East Side, New York
Justin S\'s paternal great-great-grandfather, Louis S, bought the Delicatessen from his brother, Menashe, in the year 1924. The Delicatessen fed Jewish New Yorkers on the Lower East Side and also sold kosher food to many catering companies for more than three generations. The main reason Louis wanted to buy the delicatessen from his brother was because he was very cautious about religious practice and kashrus in particular.
For forty-six years the delicatessen slaughtered their own meats and was one of the most popular delicatessens from 1924 to 1970.