Louise Lawrence-Israels collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523022
• English
• overall: Height: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) | Depth: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Wicker basket chair given to Louise Israels by her parents on her second birthday, July 30, 1944, while the family was living in hiding in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Louise also received a doll for her birthday. The chair may have been for the doll, but Louise was small enough to sit in it. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. By 1942, deportations of Jews to extermination camps were occurring regularly. Louise, her two-year-old brother, their parents, and grandparents decided to go into hiding. No one except her father ever left their small attic hiding place. He snuck out after curf...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523023
• English
• 1883
• Updated 7 months ago

Prayer book buried by the family of Louise Israels while they lived in hiding in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. By 1942, deportations of Jews to extermination camps were occurring regularly. Louise, her two-year-old brother, their parents, and grandparents decided to go into hiding. No one except her father ever left their small attic hiding place. He snuck out after curfew to get food and other supplies. Amsterdam was liberated by Canadian forces on May 5, 1945. The next day, her parents took Louise and her brother outside to play in the park across t...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523024
• English
• 1945
• Updated 7 months ago

Guidebook with map noting places of interest in Amsterdam, Netherlands, given to Louise Lawrence-Israels by a good friend in 2005 so that it could be donated to the Museum.