Bedcover recovered by the Gleiser family
Creator(s)
- Frima Laub (Subject)
Biographical History
Frima Laub (nee Gleiser) was born on January 15, 1936, in Pidvolochysʹk, Ukraine (formerly Podwołoczyska, Poland). She had a brother and two sisters. She survived the Holocaust in hiding on the farm of a Christian family. She was liberated by the Russians. She lived in the Schlüpfing (Pocking) displaced persons camp and then Vollstedt, Germany. The immigrated to Havana, Cuba in 1948, and later to the United States. She married Herman Laub (Laube) in 1960.
Archival History
The bedcover was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Frima Gleiser Laub.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Frima Gleiser Laub
Scope and Content
Velvet bedcover used in Pidvolochysʹk (formerly Podwołocziska), in the Tarnopol district, where more than 2,000 Jews lived before 1939. The Gleiser family lived there until they were forced into Pidvolochysk ghetto. Ita Bier Gleiser (b. 1895) escaped together with her children, Moishe (b. 1923), Genia (b. 1926), Riwa (b. 1922), and Frima (b. 1936), and hid in different places until the liberation in 1944. At that point the family returned to their hometown of Pidvolochysʹk and recovered the one item they had before the war – the bedcover. In 1945 the family reached Germany via Szczecin in Poland and stayed in Schlupfing DP camp near Pocking; in 1948 they emigrated to Havana, Cuba and moved to the US in 1956.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Rectangular green velvet bedcover with art nouveau pattern.
People
- Laub, Frima.
Subjects
- Pidvolochys'k (Ukraine)
Genre
- Object
- Furnishings and Furniture