Object numberM2018/042:003
DescriptionClothing labels for 'Anna Rose Exclusive' range, part of the collection of memorabilia and ephemera related to Leon Zettel's retail businesses in the garment industry: 'Carnaby Girl' and 'Anna Rose'.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, in March 1924, Leon Zettel was 15 when the war broke out in 1939. He survived the war living on false papers, using the name Stanislaw Kazimierz Godlewski; his parents were murdered in Treblinka. In 2003 his rescuers, Adam and Maria Twardowski, were honoured as Righteous Among the Nations.
Leon arrived in Australia in 1947. He married Charlotte Hammersmidt in 1948 (13-year-old Charlotte and family had escaped Germany in 1938). Leon’s first job was in the Chrysler radio factory putting speakers into radios; then he worked in a knitting mill. An uncle in Switzerland left him some money which enabled them to buy a shop on the strip of the main road in Chatswood, in 1952. “Chatswood was a good shopping area but it was too far to travel every day from Maroubra”. They sold and opened another shop in Blacktown, c1963, where the population was growing.
Both shops were named ‘Anna Rose’ in memory of Leon’s mother (Rosa Zettel) and her sister (Anna Grynberg). Of 13 siblings, only one, Helena, had survived. 'Anna Rose' sold ladies wear. The Zettel’s eventually sold the Blacktown shop and opened two in Bankstown: ‘Anna Rose’ and ‘Carnaby Girl’. Carnaby Girl was “very young, very modern”. Leon describes “a tape playing music all the time, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones”. Carnaby Girls was named after the famous Carnaby Street in London.
After Zettel’s closed the business in the 1960s, Leon became a rep or distributor/agent in the garment industry, for Exim, Osti, Sportscraft and Wines knitwear.
Born in Warsaw, Poland, in March 1924, Leon Zettel was 15 when the war broke out in 1939. He survived the war living on false papers, using the name Stanislaw Kazimierz Godlewski; his parents were murdered in Treblinka. In 2003 his rescuers, Adam and Maria Twardowski, were honoured as Righteous Among the Nations.
Leon arrived in Australia in 1947. He married Charlotte Hammersmidt in 1948 (13-year-old Charlotte and family had escaped Germany in 1938). Leon’s first job was in the Chrysler radio factory putting speakers into radios; then he worked in a knitting mill. An uncle in Switzerland left him some money which enabled them to buy a shop on the strip of the main road in Chatswood, in 1952. “Chatswood was a good shopping area but it was too far to travel every day from Maroubra”. They sold and opened another shop in Blacktown, c1963, where the population was growing.
Both shops were named ‘Anna Rose’ in memory of Leon’s mother (Rosa Zettel) and her sister (Anna Grynberg). Of 13 siblings, only one, Helena, had survived. 'Anna Rose' sold ladies wear. The Zettel’s eventually sold the Blacktown shop and opened two in Bankstown: ‘Anna Rose’ and ‘Carnaby Girl’. Carnaby Girl was “very young, very modern”. Leon describes “a tape playing music all the time, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones”. Carnaby Girls was named after the famous Carnaby Street in London.
After Zettel’s closed the business in the 1960s, Leon became a rep or distributor/agent in the garment industry, for Exim, Osti, Sportscraft and Wines knitwear.
Subjectrag trade, schmattes, garment industry, survivors
Object namelabels
Materialfibres (fabrics)
Dimensions
- width: 38.00 mm
height: 150.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mr Leon Zettel