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The history of the Holocaust through 16 objects (PHOTOS)

2023-01-27 09:01:32Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

The history of the Holocaust through 16 objects (PHOTOS)

Lore Mayerfeld was 4 years old when she fled the Nazis in 1941. Together with her mother, the little Jewish girl fled her hometown of Kassel in Germany, with almost nothing with her but the clothes on her body and her doll. dear, Inge.

Mayerfeld found safe haven in the United States and later migrated to Israel. Her doll, a gift from her grandparents who were killed in the Holocaust, was always with her until 2018, when she decided to donate it to Israel's Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem.

More than 80 years later, the doll returned to Germany. It will be at the Berlin Parliament as part of an exhibition that opened on January 24, days before the country marked the 78th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp on January 27, 1945.

The exhibit, titled "16 Objects," also marks the 70th anniversary of the Yad Vashem memorial, bringing back to Germany a number of items Jews took with them when they fled the Nazis.

Among the objects in this exhibition is a black piano, a diary, a red and white towel, a stethoscope, a bag and a menorah. These objects were selected from more than 50,000 items at Yad Vashem that are related to the Holocaust.

The exhibition objects represent the 16 states of Germany and each comes from a German region.

All of which tell a unique story but share themes of love, connection, pain and loss.

The main lobby in the German Bundestag, where the items taken from Yad Vashem are on display.
"Absolutely, these are all well-known German objects, and they have stood that way as if the Holocaust had not happened," said Ruth Ur, the exhibition's curator and representative of Yad Vashem in Germany.

"The idea of ​​this exhibition was to return these objects to Germany for a short time, to bring a new energy to these objects themselves and also to the gaps they left behind".

In one of the showcases of the exhibition is a piece of fabric. It had been part of a banner that once belonged to Anneliese Borinski, who had been part of a Jewish youth group in Arensdorf, on the outskirts of Berlin. She had helped her group prepare for migration and life in what would later become the state of Israel.

After the Nazis issued the deportation orders, the 12 members of the youth group, Maccabi Hazair, cut the flag into 12 pieces and promised each other that after the war they would meet again in Israel to put the pieces of the flag back together.

Only three of them survived the Holocaust, and Borinski was the only member of the group who managed to take part of the flag with her to Israel. In 2007, her son donated this piece of cloth to the Vad Vashem memorial.

Another part of the exhibition is a leather suitcase. On the side of this suitcase, "Selma Sara Vellemann from Bremen" is written in white.

This suitcase was found in Berlin a few years after the war. Yad Vashem researchers were unable to determine how this suitcase ended up in the German capital. But they discovered that a woman with the same name, from the northern city of Bremen, had been living in a nursing home in Berlin.

In 1942, at the age of 66, she was deported to the Teresienstadt ghetto, and two months later she was sent to her death in the Treblinka extermination camp. In addition to each object in this exhibition, Ur and her team have placed life-size photographs of the buildings and alleys where the owners of these objects lived before the Nazis came to power.

The images show modern-day scenes rather than historical ones, a stark contrast to the destruction the Third Reich caused decades earlier. This object was obtained from Yad Vashem and is part of the exhibition in Germany. Six million European Jews were killed by the Nazis and their followers during the Holocaust. Some of the survivors are still alive today, but the number of survivors is dwindling due to disease and advanced age.

Mayerfeld, the little girl who ran away with her doll Inge in 1941, is one of them. During this week, she returned to Germany to attend the opening of the exhibition. Looking at her blue-eyed doll, the now 85-year-old woman revealed that the doll was wearing the pajamas she had been wearing when she was two years old on November 9, 1938. On that date, she had been hiding with her mother during “ Kristllanacht” or “Night of Broken Glass,” when the Nazis—and some ordinary Germans—terrorized Jews, vandalized their businesses, and burned more than 1,400 synagogues.

“It's not a doll that you can play with so easily because it breaks. So I didn't let my kids play with it," Mayerfeld said. "It's been sitting on a shelf in my house and when they look at it I explain to them that it's going to break, you know, just look at it and enjoy it."

Mayerfeld said it was important for her to go to Germany and tell the public about her doll, her life and what happened during the Holocaust.

"The world has learned nothing from this war," she said. "There are a lot of people who say it never happened. They can't tell me that. I was there. I lived it".

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