Gold plated dinner knife brought with a Jewish Polish refugee family
- Classification
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Household Utensils
- Category
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Flatware
- Object Type
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Table knives (aat)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of David Manski, in memory of his parents Saul and Manya Manski
Gold plated table knife brought by Rywa Manski when she left Lida, Poland with her three children, traveling via Japan, and arriving in Seattle, WA on May 7, 1941.
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Also in Izak and Rywa Manski and Gitl Rozenzweig families collection
The collection consists of a fork, knife, spoon, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Izak and Rywa Manski and their three children during the Holocaust when they left Lida, Poland, and via Japan, finally reaching Seattle, Washington, on May 7, 1941, and documents, a photograph, and a prayer book relating to the experiences of Gitl Rozenzweig in Lida, Poland, and Israel.
Date: approximately 1931-1941
Silver plated fork brought with a Jewish Polish refugee family
Object
Silver plated fork brought by Rywa Manski when she left Lida, Poland with her three children, traveling via Japan, and arriving in Seattle, WA on May 7, 1941.
Silver plated serving spoon brought with a Jewish Polish refugee family
Object
Silver plated serving spoon brought by Rywa Manski when she left Lida, Poland with her three children, traveling via Japan, and arriving in Seattle, WA on May 7, 1941.
Manski and Rozenzweig families papers
Document
Contains a passport; marriage certificate; train ticket; passenger list from the "SS Batory"; correspondence relating to Izak Manski (donor's paternal grandfather); documents relating to Gitl Rozenzweig's (donor's maternal grandmother) death in Israel; and a photograph bearing New Year wishes from Samuel, Mira and Saul Manski in Lida, Poland, c. 1931.
