Clothing
Vest
Libya
Amit M received this vest from her paternal great grandfather. Amit M’s paternal great grandfather, Itzhak M, used this vest for his Bar Mitzvah. In the picture, Itzhak is wearing a similar vest and on the back of the pictures there are words written in Italian, "Recrdo Da Triboli 1948." The vest was sewn especially for Itzhak’s Bar Mitzvah. The vest was made out of real silver from Libya.
The M family will always cherish this vest.
Gloves
Canada
Tehilla R's maternal great grandmother owned these gloves. Tehilla’s maternal Great grandmother’s gloves were either from America or Canada. Tehilla’s maternal great grandmother was a model on a boat, & had a great sense of fashion. Tehilla’s great grandmother was a beautiful woman who appreciated great fashion.
Tehilla’s great grandmother’s gloves are so delicate and small that they don’t even fit on Tehilla’s hand.
Yellow Holocaust Triangle
Poland
On October 26, 1939, Solomon L’s Maternal great grandfather was forced to make and wear a yellow triangle on his back. He lived in the first town where all Jews had to wear something on them to show that they were Jewish. This town was Wloclawek, Poland. Solomon L’s great grandfather Solomon S. passed it down to his son, and now Solomon L’s grandfather Mori S. lent it to him. This artifact is very significant to the L. and S. families because it is a very painfulheirloom representing the suffering of Solomon S. during the Holocaust. There are not many of these in the world, and it was most likely kept as an emotional
connection of Solomon S’s old family who ended up in a death camp called
Chelmno, while he escaped by fleeing to to Russia. Nobody in Solomon L’s family
will really know the exact experience that Solomon S. had in the holocaust or
why he kept that little triangle because he didn’t talk about the holocaust often, but this
triangle is one of the most important possessions that the S family has, and
it represents a little part of Solomon L’s great grandfather that was left behind for the S and L families to cherish forever.
Nobody in Solomon L’s family will really know the exact experience that Solomon S. had in the Holocaust or why he kept that little triangle because he didn’t talk about the Holocaust often, but this
triangle is one of the most important possessions that the S family has, and
it represents a little part of Solomon L’s great grandfather that was left behind for the S and L families to cherish forever.