Dina Pollak Gabos collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn47248
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 9 months ago

Documents: permit to travel issued to Rifka Pollak and her child by the Ustaša regime in Croatia in July 1941; telegram sent by Golda Myerson (Meir) to the Association of Yugoslav Jews in US in May 1948 asking for funds to bring surviving Jews of Europe to Israel; Photographs: Rifka and Otto Pollak (donor’s parents); studio photograph of Dina dedicated to her aunt Blanka, dated May 6, 1940; portrait of Johana and Isak Albahari (donor’s maternal aunt and her husband) who were murdered in Djakovo camp in Croatia in 1942; copy of painting by Dina Gabos depicting herself and her parents on the ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn563871
• English
• overall: Height: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Width: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Painting by Dina Gabos; acrylic on paper; titled: “Sorrow”; dated: 1982

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn563872
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 9 months ago

Calendar: issued by Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemet L’Israel) for the Hebrew year 5710 (1949-1950); with images of symbols of the State of Israel; map of the State of Israel and a list of new settlements founded by JNF in Israel. In Italian; Membership ID: issued by The Zionist Organization in the South of Italy to Rifka Pollak, donor’s mother; dated” July 1, 1945 in Hebrew and English; Photographs: depicting a group of Jewish Holocaust survivors posing with the sign “HIAS of America” on their way to Palestine; dated: 1945; Bari, Italy and a makeshift synagogue in Bari, Italy in 1945; I...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn592413
• English
• overall: | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn78322
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 9 months ago

Five studio photographs depicting siblings of Rifka Musafia Pollak; Efraim, Solci, Rahela and Menashe.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn78323
• English
• 1977
• overall: Height: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
• Updated 9 months ago

Grayscale painting created by Dina Pollak Gabos in 1977, commemorating her family’s escape from Yugoslavia to Italy in December 1941. The Axis powers invaded Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Dina, age three, and her parents Otto and Rifka lived in Zagreb, which became part of Croatia and was ruled by the fascist anti-Semitic Ustasa regime. On April 28, Otto was sent by the Ustasa police to Kerestinec concentration camp, but was released in June. In October, the family fled to Italian controlled Ljubljana. They lived in hiding until they escaped to Italy in December 1941. The family lived as con...