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Long, narrow, discolored white woven cloth with a cross stitched design in black and red thread on each end. One end has a name cross stitched in upper case, cursive letters; below the name is a geometric floral pattern with an alternating flower and leaf design. The opposite end has a three lined, proverb in Carpatho-Rusyn cross stitched in red; below is a floral border with two rows of alternating leaves and flowers. Both ends are fringed. front, left side, cross stitched, red thread : EDNA front, right side, cross stitched, red thread : гды согла сье тамъ и счастье [Where there is harmony, there is happiness]
Table runner with a cross stitched floral design and inscription 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 table runner, embroidered with her American name and a proverb in old fashioned Carpatho-Rusyn, may have been brought with her, but it is likely that it was made in the US.
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overall: Height: 54.750 inches (139.065 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm)
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.
The table runner was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Samuel Veta, the grandson of Edna Eckstein.
Cross stitched table runner with Russian motto made by a Jewish immigrant