Ration card issued in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Overview
- Caption
- Ration card issued in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
According to the donor, these cards were given out to mislead the Red Cross into believing that there were commodoties available for purchase. - Date
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1943 - 1945
- Locale
- Theresienstadt, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
- Variant Locale
- Terezin
Czech Republic - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hanna Ben-Yami
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Hanna Ben-YamiSource Record ID: Collections: 2004.409.1
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Hanna Ben-Yami (born Hanna Glaser) is the daughter of Dov-Ber Glaser and Berta Morgenbesser Glaser. She was born on September 20, 1930 in Berlin Germany where her father was a merchant. She had two older siblings: Jeti (b. 1923) Shlomo (Sali) (b. 1925) and Tsvi (Heini) (b. 1927). Hanna attended the primary Jewish girls school in Berlin until 1941. Her father was deported to the Dachau concentration camp where he died on August 15, 1942, and her mother was deported to Auschwitz where she perished in February 1943. The rest of the family, in addition to experiencing routine harassment from Nazi hooligans, also suffered from the deprivations resulting from Allied bombing. Hanna was sent from the Jewish hospital of Berlin to Theresienstadt on June 17, 1943. All her time at Theresienstadt she was ill from tuberculosis. She was liberated by the Soviet Army in May 1945 and immediately taken to an improvised hospital. She then was picked up by workers from the AJDC and taken first by train to Pilsen and then by car to the Deggendorf DP camp. Hanna spent an additional year in a sanatorium recovering from TB, and after her recovery she joined Kibbutz Alia at Meinkoffen. In 1947 she moved to Italy and joined a hachshara in Grottaferrata. The following year she immigrated legally to Israel where she married Menakhem Ben-Yami in August 1956. Her two brothers Shlomo and Tsvi also survived, but her sister Jeti perished in 1943.
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