Object numberM2019/022:005
DescriptionRosh Hashanah Postcard, from Dietry, Berlin, Germany to Kitty and Kuba Enoch, Australia, September 2005.
They write to the Enochs with good wishes for the Jewish New Year in German.
The postcard's image is taken from the National Library, Warsaw, and was originally produced circa 1912-1918 by the Jehudia Publishers, Warsaw.
The postcard is black and white photograph, which has been partially colourised, and depicts a young woman receiving mail from the postman. Diagonally across in the left and right corners are inset two Hebrew captions in Yiddish.
‘A letter for the New Year’ ‘I am bringing to your door. It is filled with love and devotion. Good fortune and blessing galore’.
Collection of Rosh Hashanah postcards sent to Kuba Enoch from friends in Germany, dating from 1996 to 2016. These postcards are reproductions 19th and early 20th century Jewish photos and drawings, which from private and public collections. They all concern and depict the celebration of the Jewish New Year.
Kuba was born in Krakow, Poland 1926. He was 13 years old when the war began; soon after, he and his family were rounded up into Krakow ghetto. When it was liquidated in 1943, Kuba's younger brother was removed and his parents were sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Hoping to locate his mother, Kuba volunteered to go on the next transport. He was sent to Ostrowiec, Aushwitz-Birkenau and was eventually moved to Buna camp where he remained until it was evacuated. Kuba was then marched to Buchenwald. Throughout his ordeal he was never reunited with his mother.
Following liberation by U.S forces, Kuba was sent by the Red Cross to recover in Switzerland. He arrived in Australia in 1948.
They write to the Enochs with good wishes for the Jewish New Year in German.
The postcard's image is taken from the National Library, Warsaw, and was originally produced circa 1912-1918 by the Jehudia Publishers, Warsaw.
The postcard is black and white photograph, which has been partially colourised, and depicts a young woman receiving mail from the postman. Diagonally across in the left and right corners are inset two Hebrew captions in Yiddish.
‘A letter for the New Year’ ‘I am bringing to your door. It is filled with love and devotion. Good fortune and blessing galore’.
Collection of Rosh Hashanah postcards sent to Kuba Enoch from friends in Germany, dating from 1996 to 2016. These postcards are reproductions 19th and early 20th century Jewish photos and drawings, which from private and public collections. They all concern and depict the celebration of the Jewish New Year.
Kuba was born in Krakow, Poland 1926. He was 13 years old when the war began; soon after, he and his family were rounded up into Krakow ghetto. When it was liquidated in 1943, Kuba's younger brother was removed and his parents were sent to Plaszow concentration camp. Hoping to locate his mother, Kuba volunteered to go on the next transport. He was sent to Ostrowiec, Aushwitz-Birkenau and was eventually moved to Buna camp where he remained until it was evacuated. Kuba was then marched to Buchenwald. Throughout his ordeal he was never reunited with his mother.
Following liberation by U.S forces, Kuba was sent by the Red Cross to recover in Switzerland. He arrived in Australia in 1948.
Production date 2005-09 - 2005-09
Object namepostcards
Materialpaper
Dimensions
- width: 99.00 mm
height: 149.00 mm
Language
- Hebrew
German
English
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Kuba Enoch