Booklet : folded, glued, embroidered : purple, red, beige, black ; Ht: 2 in. x W: 2 1/2 in.
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Documentary Artifact
Date
December 12, 1944
Physical Condition
Good
Notes
Heart-shaped autograph book made of folded paper, with purple fabric cover embroidered with the letter F in red thread. Pages are glued together with glue made from bread starch. The booklet contains 8 folded paper pages with messages written by prisoners. There are 21 different messages inside the booklet including 2 which are not signed. 19 different names appear. 4 messages are dated 1944-12-12 and one is dated 1945-01-26. Narrative: Booklet was given to Fania Landau on her 20th birthday by 19 co-workers in the Union ammunition factory in Auschwitz. Made in secret with materials stolen or found in the camp, the heart brings together messages of hope and birthday wishes. It represents the solidarity between these women, but also their courage and strength to withstand their horrific situation. Again, at great peril, they also presented a “cake” to Fania, made of hidden bread and decorated with margarine, on December 12, 1944.
Hardcover with cloth cover, text on left and image on right. Antisemitic propaganda publication for children, in the form of fairy tales. Front and back covers have red paper overlays: front cover features colour drawings of a stereotypical Jewish man with a big nose and a Star of David in the t.r. corner and a fox standing in grass on the b.l. corner. Inside are illustrated fairy tales; some examples include a comparison between a perfectly built Aryan man and a stereotypical Jewish man, a stereotypical Jewish man offering a good German girl riches, a group of happy German children in Hitler Youth uniforms and flying the DJ Fähnlein flag, and stereotypical Jews being deported while German children look on happily.
99 printed pages, bound in marbled cover with snap closure. Manuscript is divided in 2 parts named Book 1 and 2. Book 1: 1897-1905, 35 pages entitled “Daily life of a Jewish girl in a Polish ghetto. Leaving Poland for England”. Book 2: 1905-1918, 63 pages entitled “Daily life of a Jewish girl in an English town. The First World War”. Narrative: Edith Webber left the shtetl of Tomaszów with her parents to live in England. Because of her husband's heart condition, they moved from London to Leeds at the beginning of World War 2. They had three daughters: Jeannie Berger, Sandra "Sandy" Kaye and Joyce Denning. Out of Edith's family who stayed in Poland, only one person survived (Ithzak Werber). He was deported, jumped out of a train through floor boards, was shot at, but escaped through the forest and got to Palestine during World War 2.
Book : Paper : printed, drawn, painted : Ink : grey, white, black, blue, red, green ; Ht: 26,5 cm x W: 20,4 cm
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Original Art, Work on Paper
Date
1952-1953
Physical Condition
Excellent
Language
French
Notes
38 two-sided pages. The cover is printed with a house made with stencils. On the c. is the OSE logo and on the b. is written "Le Vesinet 2". Inside are multiple artworks, some of them prints and some drawings. They are accompanied by texts written by children living in the house. Narrative: This booklet was created by Holocaust child survivors with the help of professional artists who conducted creative workshops at the OSE home of Le Vézinet (France). Jacques Kasma was one of the 45 young people who inhabited this house after the Liberation. He stayed there until he turned 18, in 1953. Jacques Kasma was born Jacques Kaszemacher on 1935-09-04 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris, France to parents who were originally from Poland. During the war, Jacques Kasma's father was a prisoner in the POW camp Stalag VIIIC, near Sagan, Germany; he survived the war. Jacques' mother was deported from Drancy (France) to Auschwitz (Poland) on July 22, 1942 and is belived to have been killed in the camp. Jacques survived in hiding in Normandie, France. After Liberation he lived in an orphanage in Le Vésinet, a town West of Paris. Opened in 1945-12, the house was accommodating 45 teenage boys and was administered by OSE (Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants or "Organization to Save the Children").
Softcover booklet, 48 pages. Originally published underground in Poland in 1942, this translation was published in March 1944. The book describes and explains conditions at Auschwitz from the perspective of Polish prisoners. Jews are only mentioned at the end where the authors explain that there are special camps for the extermination of Jews.
31 page magazine made of newspaper paper, stapled twice on spine. Contains an article on Canadian Internment Camps written by a former internee. The article is on pages 6, 7, 10, and 11. The article is in black and white only but the magazine is in colour. Narrative: This document was donated by Eudice Bauer, the wife of Gustave Bauer, who was also an internee at a Canadian internment camp. Gustave was born in 1924 in Hamburg, Germany, and was on vacation in Denmark with his mother Anna and brother Werner when the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were passed. They decided not to return to Germany, and went to stay with Anne's sister in Brussels, Belgium. Gustave's father Manfred was arrested for smuggling money out of Germany and spent the next two years in prison. Manfred joined his family in Brussels when he was released from prison in 1937. In 1940, immediately before Germany occupied Belgium, all German males born before 1924 were ordered to register. Manfred and Werner were sent to France, where they were interned. On their way to France to join them, Gustave and his mother were arrested and sent to England on the last boat to leave Belgium before it was occupied. In England, Gustave spent time in Folkestone, Pentonville Prison, Kempton Park, and Douglas, Isle of Man. He was in England from May 19 to July 4, 1940. IOn July 4, 1940 he was sent to Canada on the S.S. Sobiesky with other German nationals as prisoners of war.He was in Camp T, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, from July 15 to August 12, 1940. He was thenmoved to Camp B, in New Brunswick, and then in 1941 was sent with other Jewish internees to Camp I, Île aux Noix, Quebec. He was sponsored for release in 1942, and his mother joined him in Canada in 1947. His father was deported from Drancy to Majdanek in 1943. It is unknown what happened to Gustave's brother Werner once he was sent to France. Neither man survived the war.