Red and tan plaid handkerchief owned by a Polish Jewish refugee

The handkerchief was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Henry and Shelley Kornman, the son and daughter-in-law of Julius Kornman. 

Red and tan plaid handkerchief owned by a Polish Jewish refugee 

overall: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm) 

Brown and red plaid handkerchief owned by Yuda (Ido) Kornmann, a Jewish man from Sokal, Poland, who survived the Holocaust with his wife Hela and young daughter Regina. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Sokal was in eastern Poland (later Ukraine) and was occupied by the Soviet Union. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union in June 1941, the town was overrun by German troops on June 23. Most of Ido’s relatives and the Jewish population of Sokal were deported to Belzec killing center in 1942. After the war ended in May 1945, Ido, Hela, and Regina presumably lived as displaced persons in Germany near Foehrenwald. The family, now including two young sons, emigrated to the United States in 1950. 

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Square, plaid cotton handkerchief with a light brown center square bordered by wide bands of light brown cloth, with dark red corners and a narrow light red center band. Several horizontal and vertical intersecting lines of offwhite thread are machine sewn over the red bands. The edge is finished with light brown cloth trim. The cloth is discolored with many stains, and some small holes.