us-005578-irn75297-irn13924
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physical characterisitics and technical requirements: a. Tall, urn-shaped silver colored, lightweight metal trophy cup with a raised cylindrical opening. Engraved below the rim at the shoulder is an embossed design of a stylized double chain leaf garland bordered by incised lines. Engraved on the center of the body on one side is a 6-pointed Star of David and flowers, 5 lines of Hebrew text, then a tree stump with a new leafy branch growing from the roots on the left, signifying rebirth. The bowl of the body is attached to a cylindrical stem that joins a stepped dome pedestal foot with an applied beaded ring design. The foot is screwed to a circular light brown, stained and varnished wooden pedestal which has a circular opening on the underside with a screw with a square nut. b. Flared, silver plated metal alloy domed lid for (a.) topped with a finial in the shape of a stylized pinecone. front, center, engraved : Hebrew text [From the Jewish Fighting Brigade to the Hebrew Youth in Bergen Belsen for the Day of Liberation.]
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date: 1946 April
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: heb
has record set type: Item
history: The trophy was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 by Isaac Kraicer.
history: Icek (Icus) Krajcer was born on May 22, 1925, in Gostynin, Poland, to Lejzor ben Aharon and Golda Rywka Korn Krajcer. Golda was originally from a nearby town, Zychlin, where her two brothers, Jakub and Mendel Korn, had a barbershop. Lejzor had two brothers: Itche, born in 1917, and Moshe, born in 1912, and a sister Rywa, who was married to Chaim Boruch Trojanowski. Together, the four men operated a wholesale poultry business. Icek had two younger brothers: Michal, born in 1926, and Szyja Fajwel, born in 1931. The family resided in a rented apartment. Upon completion of his education, Icek was sent to Zychlin to apprentice as a barber. He participated in Poaley Zion, a Zionist youth organization. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland. Icek remained in Zychlin with his maternal relatives until 1940, when he returned to his family. Immediately after German forces entered the town in September, there were mass arrests and attacks on Jews, as well as looting and the requisitioning of Jewish property. Jews were ordered to destroy the old wooden synagogue by cutting it into pieces and distributing the wood for German inhabitants to use as fuel. The Germans set up a Jewish ghetto which was soon sealed and surrounded by barbed wire. The Krajcer family was forced to move in with Fajga Krajcer Unger, with five families living in the same house. Life was very hard in the ghetto and disease and hunger were common. Itche and Icek smuggled food in from outside the ghetto. The Germans began rounding up men for service in a forced labor camp. Icek was caught, but managed to escape. He fled to Zychlin, but his grandparents convinced him to return to Gostynin. In June 1941, Itche, Icek, and Lejzor were rounded up in a search for forced laborers. Itche escaped, but Lejzor was put on a truck for transport to a labor camp. Icek begged a German officer to let him take his father’s place. The German beat him, but then agreed to the exchange and released Lejzor. Icek esc…
identifier: irn13924
is or was included in: us-005578-irn75297
record resource extent: a: Height: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Depth: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) b: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Depth: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)
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scope and content: Engraved trophy awarded to 21 year old Icek Krajcer in 1946 in the displaced persons camp on the site of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. He won the high and long jump event in an athletic competition for which the Jewish Brigade, a Palestinian unit within the British Army, issued trophies to the Hebrew Youth of Bergen Belsen. After Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, Icek, his parents, Lejzor and Golda, and his younger brothers, Michal and Szyja Fawel, were forced into the sealed Jewish ghetto in Gostynin. Icek was rounded up twice for forced labor, and escaped both times. In February 1942, he fled the ghetto with his uncle Itche who returned to Gostynin. Icek eventually ended up in Lowicz, where he assumed the identity of a non-Jewish Pole and was sent to do forced labor in Germany. In April 1945, the area was liberated and Icek resumed his true identity. He went to the DP camp in Bergen, where he assisted Bricha in illegally smuggling Jews out of eastern Europe. He met his future wife, Rachel Struczanski, a survivor from Lithuania in the camp amd they emigrated to Palestine in 1947. No other members of Icek's family survived the Holocaust.
title: Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp