Overview
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Dina Pollak Gabos
Physical Details
- Language
- Hebrew
- Classification
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Identifying Artifacts
- Category
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Badges
- Object Type
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Pin-back buttons (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Circular pin with two enamel triangles, red and yellow, forming a Star of David.
- Dimensions
- overall: | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Materials
- overall : metal, enamel paint
- Inscription
- front, around: “Association of Former Prisoners of Nazis in Israel”
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The pin was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Dina Pollak Gabos.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:11:14
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The collection consists of a contemporary painting and photographs relating to the experiences of Dina Pollak Gabos, and her parents Otto and Rifka Pollak, who escaped Yugoslavia in 1941 and lived in hiding in Italy until 1944. Accretion: Painting: by Dina Gabos (donor); acrylic on paper; titled: “Sorrow”; dated: 1982; 28x19.5”; Calendar: issued by Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Israel) for the Hebrew year 5710 (1949-1950); with images of symbols of the State of Israel; map of the State of Israel and a list of new settlements founded by JNF in Israel. In Italian; Membership ID: issued by The Zionist Organization in the South of Italy to Rifka Pollak, donor’s mother; dated” July 1, 1945 in Hebrew and English; Photographs: depicting a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors posing with the sign “HIAS of America” on their way to Palestine; dated: 1945; Bari, Italy and a makeshift synagogue in Bari, Italy in 1945; Invitation: to luncheon for State of Israel Bonds and meeting the Foreign Minister of the State of Israel, Golda Meir; dated: December 9, 1956; New York City, US; Pin: with two enamel triangles, red and yellow, forming a Star of David; with a Hebrew inscription: “Association of Former Prisoners of Nazis in Israel” Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: approximately 1930-1977
Autobiographical painting depicting a young girl and her parents as refugees in flight painted postwar by a Croatian Jewish woman
Object
Grayscale painting created by Dina Pollak Gabos in 1977, commemorating her family’s escape from Yugoslavia to Italy in December 1941. The Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Dina, age three, and her parents Otto and Rifka lived in Zagreb, which became part of Croatia and was ruled by the fascist anti-Semitic Ustasa regime. On April 28, Otto was sent by the Ustasa police to Kerestinec concentration camp, but was released in June. In October, the family fled to Italian controlled Ljubljana. They lived in hiding until they escaped to Italy in December 1941. The family lived as confined refugees in Valdobiadenne, Italy, from January 1942 until September 1943, when Italy was occupied by Germany after the Italians surrendered to the Allies. The Pollak family acquired false papers and fled to southern Italy. They were freed in July 1944, then lived in Santa Croce displaced persons camp in Bari. Rifka’s mother, eight siblings, and their families were all murdered in Croatia during the war. In 1950, Dina and her parents emigrated to New York.
Dina Gabos papers
Document
Documents: permit to travel issued to Rifka Pollak and her child by the Ustaša regime in Croatia in July 1941; telegram sent by Golda Myerson (Meir) to the Association of Yugoslav Jews in US in May 1948 asking for funds to bring surviving Jews of Europe to Israel; Photographs: Rifka and Otto Pollak (donor’s parents); studio photograph of Dina dedicated to her aunt Blanka, dated May 6, 1940; portrait of Johana and Isak Albahari (donor’s maternal aunt and her husband) who were murdered in Djakovo camp in Croatia in 1942; copy of painting by Dina Gabos depicting herself and her parents on the run in Italy during the Holocaust
Dina Pollak Gabos photographs
Document
Five studio photographs depicting siblings of Rifka Musafia Pollak; Efraim, Solci, Rahela and Menashe.
Dina Pollak Gabos papers
Document
Calendar: issued by Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Israel) for the Hebrew year 5710 (1949-1950); with images of symbols of the State of Israel; map of the State of Israel and a list of new settlements founded by JNF in Israel. In Italian; Membership ID: issued by The Zionist Organization in the South of Italy to Rifka Pollak, donor’s mother; dated” July 1, 1945 in Hebrew and English; Photographs: depicting a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors posing with the sign “HIAS of America” on their way to Palestine; dated: 1945; Bari, Italy and a makeshift synagogue in Bari, Italy in 1945; Invitation: to luncheon for State of Israel Bonds and meeting the Foreign Minister of the State of Israel, Golda Meir; dated: December 9, 1956; New York City, US
