us-005578-irn36091-irn46302
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record resource extent: overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)
identifier: irn46302
has or had some members with language: heb
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: Light brown paper folded in half vertically to form a card with a faded red ribbon tied around the center. The cover has watercolor drawings and inside on the right is a message in Polish handprinted in block letters in black ink with pencil underwriting. The front cover depicts a room interior with a blonde haired woman in a green dress and a dark haired girl in a white sailor dress with a present seated in a wingback chair, blue with orange flowers. To the right is a small circular table with a fringed red cloth and a large pink vase with a bouquet. The upper right corner has diagonal decorations: from the top, a green garland, a string of flowers, including blue pansies, pink tulips, and red carnations, the word MAMUSI, flowers, a garland. There is yellow shading behind the chair and red marks suggest a carpet. The back cover has an image of the emblem of Israel, a blue coat of arms with a 7-branched candelabrum, flanked by 2 tall laurel branches with the Hebrew for Israel below. The drawing is in a hinged, window pane mat with a cover. cover, diagonally in upper right, blue paint, pencil underwriting : MAMUSI For Mommy] cover, lower left corner, diagonally, black ink over red pencil : Kraków / 29. V 49 / G with I through it [monogram for Ilona Goldman] inside, center, printed in black letters, pencil : Kochana Mamusiu! / W dniu Twego Świeta / Źycze Ci DuŹo Zdrowia, / Śzczęścia i Radości / Twoja Córeczka / ILONKA [Dear mummy / [?] of thy holy / I wish you good health, / Happiness and Joy / Your Daughter / Ilonka] inside, bottom, black ink : Kraków, Dnia, 29. Maja 1949r. / DZIEŃ MATKI [Krakow, Day May 29, 1949 year / MOTHER'S DAY] reverse, within shield, gray paint over blue : שראל reverse, upper left corner, pencil : 12 [Hebrew cursive ]
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scope and content: Handmade Mother's Day card tied with a pink ribbon created by 12 year old Ilona Goldman in 1949. It has a handwritten message inside wishing her mother joy, happiness, and good health. During the war, Ilona lived in hiding in Poland from 1942-1944. She made many drawings during this time, especially when, in spring 1942 at age four, she was separated from her parents and placed with the Polish peasant family of Hania Seremet, who agreed to hide her for a fee. Drawings were the only way for the talkative child, not yet able to write, to communicate with her parents. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ilona with her parents, Salomon and Gusta fled Krakow for Soviet controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family was confined in the Jewish ghetto where Salomon worked as an accountant at a meat rendering factory owned by the Wehrmacht. In spring 1942, fearing the liquidation of the ghetto, Salomon arranged a hiding place for them outside the ghetto with a former employee, Jozef Jozak. However, they would not hide Ilona because he thought it would be too hard to conceal a lively young girl. Ilona was smuggled to the countryside and placed in hiding as a Christian child with the Seremets. After 6 months, Salomon could no longer pay for her care, so Ilona was brought back to live in their hiding place, without the knowledge of the Jozak family. Ilona had to stay most of this time locked in a closet with only her drawings and medical textbooks left by a previous tenant. The family lived in hiding until the Soviet Army liberated the city in July 1944. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned to Krakow.
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date: 1949 May 29
conditions of use: No restrictions on use
title: For Mommy Mother's Day card with ribbon and an image of a mother and daughter created by a former hidden child
history: Ilona (Alona) Goldman (later Frankel) was born on June 27, 1937, to Gusta and Salomon Goldman in Krakow, Poland. Salomon was born in 1901 in Bochnia and had two brothers. Gusta was born in 1904 in Oswieczim and had five brothers and sisters. Both her parents were communists, an association that was illegal at the time. Salomon and Gusta married in 1936 and live in a lavish villa Salomon had built in Bochnia. He ran a successful construction supply business and the family lived comfortably, with servants and a nanny. In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The family fled to Lwow (Lviv, Ukraine) in the Russian-occupied section of eastern Poland. Her father worked as the chief accountant in a tannery/slaughterhouse factory. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Jews in Lwow were forced into the ghetto. The factory where her father worked came under the control of the SS, but he retained his job. The manager, Herr Knaup, designated Salomon an essential employee which offered some protection from deportation. He also allowed the family to live in an alcove attached to the factory. Salomon would hide leftover blood and entrails from the slaughterhouse for the other Jewish workers. They would drink the coagulated blood right away and wrap the entrails around their bodies under their clothes to smuggle back into the ghetto. At some point, the Goldmans had to move into the ghetto. During one round-up, Gusta and Ilona were placed on a transport for the camps, but someone told Salomon and the boss from the factory, Bulani, came and got them released. In March 1942, the Germans began deporting Jews from the ghetto to Belzec extermination camp. At some point, Salomon was arrested and taken to Janowska camp. He was tortured for two days, and then released. Salomon constructed a hiding place in their room that you reached by crawling through the stove. There was an aktion to clear the ghetto of children and when Gusta found Ilona, they hid there with several…
history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Alona Frankel.