Ratza Solomonskaya collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562283
• English
• 1927
• a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Depth: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) b: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) c: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 35.875 inches (91.123 cm) | Depth: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm) d: Height: 26.625 inches (67.628 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Depth: 18.875 inches (47.943 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Singer sewing machine mounted on a wooden table with wrought iron legs that Ratza (Reyza) Solomonskaya used to earn her livelihood as a seamstress in the small town of Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), during the Holocaust. She lived with her husband, a shoemaker named Mark Solomonski, and their teenage daughters, Khayka and Ita. During World War II, their town was in Bessarabia, a historically contested region, which had been part of Romania following World War I until it was ceded to the Soviet Union in June 1940. In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn562288
• English
• overall: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Singer sewing scissors that Ratza (Reyza) Solomonskaya used to earn her livelihood as a seamstress in the small town of Pepeni, Romania (now Pepeny, Moldova), during the Holocaust. She lived with her husband, a shoemaker named Mark Solomonski, and their teenage daughters, Khayka and Ita. During World War II, their town was in Bessarabia, a historically contested region, which had been part of Romania following World War I until it was ceded to the Soviet Union in June 1940. In June 1941, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Romania recaptured the region. On July 13, Romanian sold...