Overview
- Brief Narrative
- Doll kept by 1.5 year old Marguerite (Margo) Lederman while she lived in hiding with her older sister, Annette, in Belgium from 1942-1945. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940. Their father, Mordka, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on October 31, 1942. Their mother, Rajala, placed the girls in hiding with the van Buggenhout family in Rumst. Rajala was deported to Auschwitz on the last transport out of Belgium in 1944. Both parents perished in the camp.
- Date
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use:
1942-1945
- Geography
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use:
in hiding;
Rumst (Belgium)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marguerite Lederman Mishkin
- Contributor
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Subject:
Marguerite L. Mishkin
- Biography
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Annette (now Linzer) and Marguerite Lederman (now Mishkin) are the daughters of Mordka and Rajala Zylberszac Lederman, a Jewish couple from Łódź, Poland, who had moved in the 1930s to Belgium, then to France, and then back to Belgium. On October 31, 1942, Annette and Margo's father was deported to Auschwitz. Their mother placed the girls in hiding with the van Buggenhout family in Rumst, Belgium.
Physical Details
- Classification
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Toys
- Category
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Dolls
- Object Type
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Bisque dolls (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Doll with a painted bisque head dressed in a red hat and uniform.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The doll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Marguerite Lederman Mishkin.
- Funding Note
- The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-10-03 12:24:35
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Also in Marguerite Lederman Mishkin collection
The collection consists of documents, photographs, and objects relating to Marguerite and Annette Lederman [donor and her sister] and their experiences as hidden children in Belgium during the Holocaust.
Doll
Object
The doll was given to Marguerite Lederman by a Hadassah group from the United States while she was in an orphanage in Belgium after the Holocaust.
Marguerite Lederman Mishkin papers
Document
The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Marguerite and Annette Lederman and their family's experiences during the time period of the Holocaust.
