Anna (Golden) Gordon family collection

Identifier: irn523452
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Regina Gordon and Anna Nodel.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Anna and Riva Gordon (Golden) and their family in Svencionys and Vilna, Lithuania, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

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Gordon family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518254
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains three postcards written by Basia Gordon (donors' mother) from the Vilna ghetto to her daughter Chaja who was in hiding in Swiecany (Švenčionys), Lithuania; dated 1943; in Russian. Also includes a collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of the Gordon family in Swieciany during the Holocaust.
Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn518255
- English
- 1936-1943
- a: Height: 19.250 inches (48.895 cm) | Width: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) b: Height: 26.250 inches (66.675 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Childsize violin and case that belonged to 13 year old Boruch Golden, who was killed in the massacres at Ponary in September 1943. Baruch began playing the violin when he was 6 years old. It was saved by his sister, Niusia (Anna), who survived the war in hiding. Following the invasion of Soviet territory by Germany in spring 1941, the Golden family, the parents, Moshe and Basia, and 4 children: Niusia, Riva, Boruch, and Tevya, were forced into the Swieciany (Svencionys) ghetto in Lithuania. When it was liquidated by the Germans in April 1943, the family was separated. Niusia refused to get ...

Anna (Golden) Gordon family collection

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Gordon family papers

Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre