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Yaffa Eliach Shtetl collection

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    Overview

    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Yaffa Sonenson and her family in Ejszyszki, Poland (Eisiskes, Lithuania) and the Radun ghetto (Belarus) before and during the Holocaust when, as a child, she lived in hiding, and also artifacts collected by Dr. Eliach relating to Jewish life in the shtetl before the war.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Yaffa Sonenson Eliach.
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    Star of David badge with a blank center worn in the Radun ghetto

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.1

    Geography
    use: Radun ghetto (Poland) (historic); Radunʹ (Belarus)
    Date
    use:  1941 October-1942 May
    Star of David badge with a blank center worn in the Radun ghetto
    Star of David badge with a blank center worn in the Radun ghetto

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.2

    Geography
    use: Radun ghetto (Poland) (historic); Radunʹ (Belarus)
    Date
    use:  1941 October-1942 May
    Star of David badge with a blank center worn in the Radun ghetto
    Red brushed velvet tefillin pouch with a Star of David found in postwar Berlin

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 a

    Geography
    found: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945
    Red brushed velvet tefillin pouch with a Star of David found in postwar Berlin
    Set of tefillin found postwar by a young Polish Jewish survivor

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.3 b-c

    Geography
    found: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    found:  1945
    Book

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.4

    Date
    publication:  1935
    Poster announcing a rally to support Zionism

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.5

    Geography
    distribution: Cologne (Germany)
    Date
    commemoration:  1936 February 15
    Program for a Jewish cultural event in pre-Kristallnacht Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.6

    Geography
    issue: Stuttgart (Germany)
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1936 May 18
    Program for a Jewish cultural event in pre-Kristallnacht Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.7 a

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1936 March 21
    Insert from a program for a Jewish cultural event in pre-Kristallnacht Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.7 b

    Geography
    issue: Germany
    Date
    issue:  1936 March 21
    Program for a Hebrew Celebration of Shabbat in pre-Kristallnacht Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.8

    Geography
    use: Mannheim (Germany)
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1936 May 17
    Program for a lecture series on Jewish life by a Zionist organization in pre-Kristallnacht Berlin

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.9

    Geography
    issue: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1935 November
    Program for a Hebrew Celebration of Shabbat in pre-Kristallnacht Nazi Germany

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.10

    Geography
    publication: Berlin (Germany)
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1936 March 21
    Betar patch with an embroidered menorah worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 a

    Geography
    use: displaced persons camp; Germany
    Date
    use:  1946
    Betar patch with an embroidered menorah worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
    Betar logo patch worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 b

    Geography
    use: displaced persons camp; Germany
    Date
    use:  1946
    Betar logo patch worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
    Betar epaulet worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 c

    Geography
    use: displaced persons camp; Germany
    Date
    use:  1946
    Betar epaulet worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
    Betar epaulet worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.11 d

    Geography
    use: displaced persons camp; Germany
    Date
    use:  1946
    Betar epaulet worn by an internee at a displaced persons camp
    Handkerchief embroidered with American flags given to an internee at a displaced persons camp by a US soldier

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.12

    Geography
    use: displaced persons camp; Germany
    Date
    use:  1946
    Handkerchief embroidered with American flags given to an internee at a displaced persons camp by a US soldier
    Handmade linen band

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.13 a

    Handmade linen band
    Detached handmade linen pocket

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.13 b

    Detached handmade linen pocket
    White tablecloth with blue and yellow needlepoint flowers saved from the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.14

    Geography
    use: Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    recovered:  approximately 1945
    White apron used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.15

    Geography
    received: Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    received:  approximately 1945
    White apron used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Small wallet handmade from red paper from the German occupation

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.16

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    recovered:  approximately 1945
    Small wallet handmade from red paper from the German occupation
    Cleaver used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.17

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Cleaver used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Kitchen pestle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.18

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Kitchen pestle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Fork used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.19.1

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Fork used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Fork used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.19.2

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Fork used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Spoon used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.20

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Spoon used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Glass bottle handcrafted prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.21

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Glass bottle handcrafted prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Loom shuttle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.22

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Loom shuttle used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Tambourine used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.23

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Tambourine used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Cymbals used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.24 a-b

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Cymbals used by kindergartners prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Copper cooking pot used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.25

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Copper cooking pot used prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Green canvas knapsack taken from a German soldier by a partisan

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.26 a-c

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  approximately 1941 September-1944
    Green canvas knapsack taken from a German soldier by a partisan
    Dental scaler used to sew up sacks of wheat, flour, and sugar by a Jewish family in prewar Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.27

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Framed needlepoint tulips made prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.28

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Framed needlepoint tulips made prewar in the Eisiskes shtetl
    Pressed flowers saved from the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.29

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  before 1941 September
    Pressed flowers saved from the Eisiskes shtetl

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.30

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Date
    use:  approximately 1945
    Jar of stones from the river near Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.31

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Jar of stones from the river near Eisiskes
    Jar containing wheat seeds from Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.32

    Geography
    use: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Jar containing wheat seeds from Eisiskes
    Jar containing rye seeds from Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.33

    Geography
    found: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Jar containing rye seeds from Eisiskes
    Jar containing rye seeds from Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.34

    Geography
    found: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Jar containing rye seeds from Eisiskes
    Jar containing barley seeds from Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.35

    Geography
    found: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Jar containing barley seeds from Eisiskes
    Jar containing horsefeed from Eisiskes

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.169.36

    Geography
    found: Ejszyszki (Poland) (historic); Eisiskes (Lithuania)
    Jar containing horsefeed from Eisiskes
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