Gifts & Memorabilia

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Theme:
"DANCER: Sketch of a Dress", 1930
David Brainin (1905, Kharkov, Ukraine -1942, Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Gouache and pencil on paper

From the Yad Vashem Art Collection

David Brainin studied at Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Arrested on 29 April 1942, he was interned in Drancy and later in Compiègne. On 18 September 1942, he was deported on Transport No. 34 to Auschwitz, where he was murdered.

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"Pink Flower in a Blue-Black Frame", 1942
Hanna Helmann (1877, Nürnberg -1942, Sobibor)
Oil crayon on tracing paper

From the Yad Vashem Art Collection

Having earned a doctorate in philosophy, Hanna Hellmann worked as a lecturer in the School of Social Work in Frankfurt. In May 1938, she was hospitalized in a sanatorium. On 15 June 1942, she was deported together with the patients and staff to Sobibor, where she was murdered. 

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Theme:
"INTERIOR", 1942
Rudolf Levy (1875, Stettin, Prussia -1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Oil, gouache and pencil on paper

From the Yad Vashem Art Collection

Rudolf Levy studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich. When the war broke out in 1939, he was living in Florence and tried – unsuccessfully - to leave for the USA. He was arrested in December 1943. On 5 April 1944, he was deported on Convoy No. 9 to Auschwitz where he was murdered. 

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Theme:
"INTERIOR", 1942
Rudolf Levy (1875, Stettin, Prussia -1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau)
Oil, gouache and pencil on paper

From the Yad Vashem Art Collection

Rudolf Levy studied at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich. When the war broke out in 1939, he was living in Florence and tried – unsuccessfully - to leave for the USA. He was arrested in December 1943. On 5 April 1944, he was deported on Convoy No. 9 to Auschwitz where he was murdered. 

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Calendar 2025-2026  A Living Memory

המשפחה בשואה:

סיפורי חפצים מאוסף יד ושם

תחת המשטר הנאצי, בתוך מציאות של רדיפה, של מחסור ושל הפרדה כפויה, התערער המבנה המשפחתי היהודי עמוקות ולעיתים התפרק לחלוטין. קשרים בין הורים לילדיהם, בין אחים ואחיות, בני זוג, סבים וסבות לעיתים נקטעו בבת  tחת או התפוררו בהדרגה, שלב אחר שלב.

גם במצבים הקשים ביותר ניסו יהודים לשמור על תחושת שייכות ואחיזה בחיים דרך קשרי המשפחה, שהיו בשבילם לא רק מקור לנחמה אלא גם יסוד של זהות ושל עצם הקיום. כשנכפו פרדות,  אובדן היה לא רק של האדם הקרוב אלא גם של עוגן פנימי עמוק.

בלוח השנה הזה מוצגים חפצים מאוסף החפצים של יד ושם, שכל אחד מהם נושא סיפור של קשר משפחתי: מתנה או מזכרת מרגע של פרדה או של תשומת לב ואהבה  ניתנה למרות הכל. לעיתים אלו הפריטים האחרונים מן הבית או מאדם אהוב, שנשמרו כל השנים כמזכרת יקרה — עדות למה שעברו בני המשפחה בשואה וזיכרון למי שנרצחו. בסופו של דבר מסרו השורדים ובני משפחותיהם את הפריטים  יד ושם לשם ההנצחה והנחלת הזיכרון לדורות הבאים.

THE JEWISH FAMILY DURING THE HOLOCAUST: ARTIFACTS FROM THE YAD VASHEM COLLECTION

In a reality of deprivation, persecution and forced separation, the Jewish family unit was greatly undermined under the Nazi regime, and sometimes disintegrated completely. The ties between grandparents, parents and children, between brothers and sisters, and spouses or partners were often severed abruptly, or otherwise frayed gradually, as the Jews’ lives slowly unraveled.

Even in the most difficult circumstances, Jews attempted to preserve a feeling of belonging and of life affirmation via family connections that were not only a source of comfort, but constituted one of the cornerstones of their identity and existence. The wrench of separation engendered anguished feelings of loss not just for the kinsmen themselves, but also for the profound internal anchor they represented.

This calendar showcases items from the Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection that carry within them stories of family ties: gifts and mementoes symbolic of a parting moment or a loving gesture made despite the hardships. In some cases, these objects were the only items remaining from a home or someone loved. They were safeguarded and cherished through the years as testaments to the tribulations endured by the family during the Shoah and memorials to the murdered. All these artifacts were ultimately donated to Yad Vashem for posterity by survivors and their families.