Floral patterned crocheted doily given to a Jewish Hungarian woman by a friend

Floral patterned crocheted doily given to a Jewish Hungarian woman by a friend 

Bina (Berta) Weiss was born on February 14, 1919, in Nyzhni Vorota (in Yiddish, Veretski), Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) to Jewish parents, Moshe and Rivka Eidel (Regina) Stern Weiss. Berta had five siblings: Jonas (b. 1912), Yaakov, Moshe, Khaia, and another sister. Berta’s mother Regina was born in 1894 in Saldobos, Czechoslovakia (Steblivka, Ukraine), to Yitzchak Josef and Zisel Stern. Moshe and Regina owned a shoe store. Moshe died of natural causes in 1922. Berta married Zalman (Samuel) Weisz, who born in 1916 in Satoraljaujhely, Hungary, to Itzchak and Rachel Hamerman Weisz. Samuel was a bank clerk. In spring 1939, Hungary annexed the Subcarpathian Rus region of Czechoslovakia, which included Veretski. Berta had a son, Moshe Tomas, circa 1941. In August 1941, Berta and her family and other Jews were expelled from Veretski and sent to German occupied territory, then to the ghetto in Kamenez-Podolsk. They escaped and fled to Budapest. On February 24, 1943, Berta’s husband, Samuel, and brother, Jonas, were shot by the Hungarian Gestapo in Hidegseg, Hungary. Berta, who was pregnant, had false papers as a Christian and returned to her mother in Veretski. On March 21, 1943, Berta had a son, Istvan Itzchak. She left Istvan in the care of her mother and took her older son Moshe into hiding with her. They both had false papers and were saved by a Christian woman who did not know they were Jewish. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Most of Berta’s family perished in the Holocaust. Her mother Regina, 54, and her son Istvan, 1, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944 and murdered. Berta’s siblings Moshe and Khaia also perished. Berta and Moshe went to Prague, and at some time after 1946, moved to Israel. Berta married Herman Akkerman and the couple lived in Jerusalem. Berta’s son Moshe, 57, passed away circa 1998. 

Floral patterned crocheted doily given to a Jewish Hungarian woman by a friend