The quilt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Samuel Veta, the grandson of Edna Eckstein.
Yetta (Yitke) Kwasznik was born approximately June 26, 1885, in Ratno, Russia (Ratne, Ukraine) to a Jewish family. She had a younger brother Motel, born in 1888. On June 15, 1906, she married Shlomo (Samuel) Eckstein, who was born in Ratno around January 15, 1878. A son, Edmund (Edward), was born in the fall of 1907. The next year, Samuel immigrated to the United States, sailing from Hamburg, Germany, and arriving in New York on May 25, 1908. He settled in Denver, Colorado. Yetta and Edmund joined him there in 1912. Yetta began to use the name Edna. Samuel was a laborer and eventually a driver with the Teamsters union. The couple had four more children: Rebecca, (April 16, 1913- September 12, 1971), Annie born 1915, Isadore, born 1918, and Abraham, born 1922. Edna received several letters from her brother Motel pleading for financial support, but after 1931, she received no more letters and had no further contact with her family in Eastern Europe. Rebecca (Betty) married Leo Veta and they adopted an infant girl and, in 1950, an infant boy, whom they named Samuel. Samuel’s biological mother, Ruth Haneman, had fled Nazi Germany with her family for Shanghai, China. Both her parents died in Shanghai in 1943, leaving sixteen year old Ruth responsible for her younger siblings. Samuel, age 68, died on March 9, 1946. Edna, age 92, died on January 12, 1977.
Small, square quilt with a red cloth top cover quilted with a large flower design and a double band border. It is padded and has a light pink cloth bottom cover. It is enclosed in a white, cloth duvet cover, sewn shut on all sides, with a diamond shaped opening on the top center framing a raised, heart shaped design embroidered with 3 English words within a triple border with a flower pattern, a rippled center, and a scalloped outer border. The duvet opening has an eyelet band and a scalloped outer border with embroidered flowers. The back has a repair patch and brown staining. quilt, cursive, embroidered, white thread : Good / Luck / Baby
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overall: Height: 33.500 inches (85.09 cm) | Width: 30.375 inches (77.153 cm)
Small red quilt enclosed in a white duvet made by Edna (Yetta) Kwasznik Eckstein, who immigrated to the United States with her young son from Ratno, Russia (Ratne, Ukraine) in 1912. They joined her husband, Sam, who had left Ratno in 1908 and settled in Denver, Colorado. The quilt is embroidered Good Luck Baby and may have been brought with her, but it is likely that it was made in the US.
Infant’s embroidered quilt and duvet cover made by a Jewish immigrant