Olga Waldman Wisen and Mark Wisen collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38511
• English
• 1960-1962
• overall: Height: 86.250 inches (219.075 cm) | Width: 63.500 inches (161.29 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

US Army green wool blanket owned by Mark Wisen, who as a young Jewish boy survived the Holocaust from 1941-1944 by pretending to be Catholic. Mark, 11, and his mother Olga were visiting her parents in Srerszeniowce, Poland, when it was occupied by Soviet forces in September 1939. In March 1941, Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invaded the town, deporting many Jewish inhabitants to the Tluste ghetto (Tovste, Ukraine). Olga procured false identities and she and Mark escaped from the ghetto to Podhajce where they met Olga's brother, Israel. Afraid that they had been recognized, they went...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn38512
• English
• 1945-1949
• overall: Height: 22.500 inches (57.15 cm) | Width: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Green wool cardigan made by Olga Waldman while she was living in the Neu Friemann displaced persons camp near Munich, Germany, from 1945-1949. She knitted the sweater from the wool yarn of an unraveled US Army blanket. Olga and her eleven year old son, Mark, were visiting her parents in Srerszeniowce, Poland, when it was occupied by Soviet forces in September 1939. In March 1941, Germany broke the Nazi-Soviet Pact and invaded the town, deporting many Jewish inhabitants to the Tluste ghetto (Tovste, Ukraine). Olga procured false identities and she and her son escaped from the ghetto to Podha...