Iris Avni papers
The collection primarily consists of pre-war photographs of the Menzer, Lamm, and Schlesinger families in Bratislava and Nitra, Novaky labor camp during the Holocaust, and survivors of the Holocaust in Nitra, Czechoslovakia. Also includes 1 memorial Yizkor list of Leopold and Rosa Menczer, Iris Avni's (Herta Menzer) paternal grandparents.
- Language
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German
- Genre/Form
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Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
1 oversize folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Iris Herta Avni-Menzer
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Record last modified: 2022-07-28 18:11:49
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Also in This Collection
Tefillin set hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
Object
Set of tefillin used by Eduard Menzer, hidden and then recovered after the war by his wife, Aurelia. Tefillin are small boxes with leather straps used by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. The family was living in hiding in the Tatra mountains when, on December 13, 1944, German soldiers burst into the hut where Eduard was saying morning prayers. They yanked off his tallit and tefillin, threw them to the ground, and arrested Eduard. His wife, Aurelia, and daughters had run off, but later returned for the tefillin and pouch. They moved to another hiding place where Aurelia hid the items in a feedbag in a stable. Before Tatra, in 1942, Eduard, Aurelia, and their three children: Alfred, age 15, Herta (Iris), age 14, and Mira, age 4, were evicted from their home in Bratislava by the fascist government of Slovakia because they were Jews. In 1943, they were deported to Novaky forced labor camp, except for Alfred, who was sent to a labor camp in Hungary. In August 1944, after the failure of the Slovak National Uprising, the Novaky prisoners were released and the family fled to the Tatra mountains. Eduard was executed on January 9, 1945. The region was liberated in March 1945. Aurelia retrieved the tefillin and pouch and returned to Nitra. After the war ended in May 1945, Alfred rejoined them, having survived Auschwitz and Bunzlau concentration camps. Herta and Alfred soon left for Palestine; Aurelia and Mira arrived in Israel in 1949.
Green striped sateen tefillin pouch hidden and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish family
Object
Green sateen bag used to store tefillin by Eduard Menzer, hidden and then recovered after the war by his wife, Aurelia. Tefillin are small boxes with leather straps used by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. The family was living in hiding in the Tatra mountains when, on December 13, 1944, German soldiers burst into the hut where Eduard was saying morning prayers. They yanked off his tallit and tefillin, threw them to the ground, and arrested Eduard. His wife, Aurelia, and daughters had run off, but later returned for the tefillin and pouch. They moved to another hiding place where Aurelia hid the items in a feedbag in a stable. In 1942, Eduard, Aurelia, and their three children: Alfred, age 15, Herta (Iris), age 14, and Mira, age 4, were evicted from their home in Bratislava by the fascist government of Slovakia because they were Jews. In 1943, the family was deported to Novaky forced labor camp, except for Alfred, who was sent to a labor camp in Hungary. In August 1944, after the failure of the Slovak National Uprising, the Novaky prisoners were released and the family fled to the Tatra mountains. Eduard was executed on January 9, 1945. The region was liberated in March 1945. Aurelia retrieved the tefillin and pouch and returned to Nitra. After the war ended in May 1945, Alfred rejoined them, having survived Auschwitz and Bunzlau concentration camps. Herta and Alfred soon left for Palestine; Aurelia and Mira arrived in Israel in 1949.
Menzer and Steiner family photograph collection
Document
The collection consists of three photographs of members of the Menzer and Steiner families from Nitra, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) who were killed in 1942.