Doll in a red hat and uniform kept by a young girl while living in hiding
Creator(s)
- Marguerite L. Mishkin (Subject)
Biographical History
Annette (now Linzer) and Marguerite Lederman (now Mishkin) are the daughters of Mordka and Rajala Zylberszac Lederman, a Jewish couple from Łódź, Poland, who had moved in the 1930s to Belgium, then to France, and then back to Belgium. On October 31, 1942, Annette and Margo's father was deported to Auschwitz. Their mother placed the girls in hiding with the van Buggenhout family in Rumst, Belgium.
Archival History
The doll was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by Marguerite Lederman Mishkin.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marguerite Lederman Mishkin
Funding Note: The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Scope and Content
Doll kept by 1.5 year old Marguerite (Margo) Lederman while she lived in hiding with her older sister, Annette, in Belgium from 1942-1945. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940. Their father, Mordka, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on October 31, 1942. Their mother, Rajala, placed the girls in hiding with the van Buggenhout family in Rumst. Rajala was deported to Auschwitz on the last transport out of Belgium in 1944. Both parents perished in the camp.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Doll with a painted bisque head dressed in a red hat and uniform.
Subjects
- Jewish children in the Holocaust--Belgium--Rumst--Biography.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)--Belgium--Rumst--Biography.
- Hololcaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Belgium--Personal narratives, Jewish.
Genre
- Object
- Toys