us-005578-irn68673-irn11793
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history: Jutta Ina Grybski was born on November 30, 1935, in Berlin, Germany, to a Catholic father and Jewish mother, Hans and Kaethe Schrimmer Grybski. Hans was born on November 8, 1911, in the Rixdorf area of Berlin and had six siblings. Kaethe was born on April 29, 1911, in Berlin to Jakob (b. 1882) and Bianka Tann Schrimmer (b. 1885). Jakob was a merchant and served in the Germany Army in World War I. Kaethe had one older brother, Manfred. Hans and Kaethe were married in approximately 1933, causing tension with Hans’s family. Hans wanted to enlist in the German army, but was prevented from joining while married to a Jewish woman. Hans and Kaethe divorced in November 1938 and Hans then enlisted. Kaethe and Jutta moved into an apartment across the hall from Kaethe’s parents. Of Hans’s large family, only Jutta's grandmother Emma and two aunts would acknowledge Jutta. She had a cousin Lydia, daughter of Hans's brother Walter and his wife Lisbeth with whom she played at their grandmother's. Hans married again, to Frida Jahring, who was very kind to Jutta. Hans visited Jutta and Kaethe when he was home on leave. The Nazi government, in power since 1933, actively persecuted the Jewish population. Jutta’s Jewish kindergarten was closed. She could not go to the park or use public transportation. Kaethe was forced to labor in a commercial laundry. Her mother Bianka watched Jutta, and taught her to read and write. In September 1939, World War II began when Germany invaded Poland. During air raids, Jutta and her family went to the basement instead of the shelter. They had to share their apartment with strangers. Their ration cards had J’s on them and they could not buy white bread, cakes, or sweets. They could only shop between 4 and 5 o’clock and not all stores served them. They had to give up their radio. Beginning in September 1941, they had to wear Star of David badges. Jutta sometimes covered her Star of David badge to ride public transportation alone and to go to the park with…
scope and content: Illustrated poetry book used by 9 year old Jutta Grybski (Janet Beasley) in the Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp. The book was found by Jutta in the ghetto. She had brought an identical copy of the book with her to the camp when she was deported from Berlin, but then lost it. The book she found may be the same one that she lost. She wrote a note inside the book recounting this history. The cover illustration features a young girl who looks like very much like a bisque Kewpie style doll, 1996.76.1, that Jutta also brought with her to Theresienstadt. Jutta had a Jewish mother, Kaethe, and a Catholic father, Hans, who divorced in late 1938 in Berlin, Germany. Hans enlisted in the German Army. His Aryan status and military service would protect Jutta and Kaethe from deportation, although their lives were restricted by anti-Jewish legislation. Jutta could not attend school or use public parks. Kaethe was forced to work in a commercial laundry. Jutta’s maternal grandparents Jakob and Bianka were deported to concentration camps in 1942 and 1943. After Hans was killed in battle on October 9, 1944, Kaethe and Jutta were arrested, and, on October 27, deported to Theresienstadt in the German protectorate of Czechoslovakia. Kaethe worked night shifts in a mica factory. They were given insufficient rations so Jutta stole extra food when she could. The camp was liberated on May 9, and they returned to Berlin in mid-June. Jutta’s maternal grandparents and uncle perished in the Holocaust. Jutta and Kaethe left for the United States in 1946.
date: 1944-1945 May
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has or had some members with language: deu
physical characterisitics and technical requirements: [22 leaves] : col. ill. ; 35 cm. Binding note: sewn, pub. yellow cloth, orange col. pict. bds. The book is very worn and well used. It is inscribed on the flyleaf, and there are are scribbles and partial drawings on the title and back pages. It has a yellow cover with an illustration of a dog attached to a group of balloons and a young girl dressed in yellow dress and hat who resembles a kewpie doll. The book presents 34 illustrated poems on 17 unnumbered pages, some based on fables: title, illustration, poem, and uses fraktur text. front fly leaf, back, upper left edge, red crayon : Jutta Grybski front, fly leaf, back, upper right edge, black pen : [Gúsf. L Sryf.?] 1930. / No 126 front fly leaf, back, upper left, pencil : Jutta Grybski / Dieses Buch / habe ich mit / ? Jahren verloren, / in Berlin Deutschland/und fand es wieder / im / Conzentrations- / camp Theresien / stadt wieder/ [SE?] 583800) [Jutta Grybski. I lost this book [when I was] ? years old in Berlin, Germany and found it again in the Theresienstadt concentration camp] front fly leaf, back, upper right, pencil : konzentrations- camp / [Theresienstadt]. das selbe / ich erkannt es an der [Widmund] [concentration camp Theresienstadt -- the same -- I recognized it on the [?]] front fly leaf, back, upper right, embossed : Library of Janet Beasley
has beginning date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1928-01-01
title: Bunte Luftballons [Book]
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history: The book was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996 by Janet I. Beasley.
has end date: http://lod.ehri-project-test.eu/dates/1928-12-31
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has or had holder: us-005578
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identifier: irn11793