Haggadah for Pesach
Object numberM2009/098:001
TitleHaggadah for Pesach
DescriptionSmall pocket size Hebrew Haggadah for Pesach, printed and distributed in Germany by the American Joint Distribution Committee for residents of DP camps, Pesach 1948. Yola Rawdin was given this Haggadah while attending the Hebrew Gymnasium in Munich after the War.
It was presented with “the blessings of the Festival of Freedom.” The cover features an illustration of Moses leading the Jewish people into Israel.
Part of a collection of photographs and memorabilia belonging to Yolande (Yola) Schneider nee Rawdin, born 15 August 1933 in Warsaw, and only child to David and Mira Rawdin. The family was comfortably well off; David was a chemical engineer who worked in his father’s factory which made small metal parts like screws and for armaments. During the war, she and her mother escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and lived in a Warsaw suburb called Piastów. They survived living on false papers. Yola’s false name was Janina Szymanska. At the end of 1949, after spending four years in DP camps, Yola and her mother immigrated to Australia.
Amongst the collection is an autograph book containing messages and drawings by the Polish girls in her class in Piastow from 1945 and1946, including signatures of Tereska and Tosia Jablonska who were with Yola in Aschau DP camp.
It was presented with “the blessings of the Festival of Freedom.” The cover features an illustration of Moses leading the Jewish people into Israel.
Part of a collection of photographs and memorabilia belonging to Yolande (Yola) Schneider nee Rawdin, born 15 August 1933 in Warsaw, and only child to David and Mira Rawdin. The family was comfortably well off; David was a chemical engineer who worked in his father’s factory which made small metal parts like screws and for armaments. During the war, she and her mother escaped from the Warsaw Ghetto and lived in a Warsaw suburb called Piastów. They survived living on false papers. Yola’s false name was Janina Szymanska. At the end of 1949, after spending four years in DP camps, Yola and her mother immigrated to Australia.
Amongst the collection is an autograph book containing messages and drawings by the Polish girls in her class in Piastow from 1945 and1946, including signatures of Tereska and Tosia Jablonska who were with Yola in Aschau DP camp.
Production date 1948
Object nameHaggadah
Dimensions
- height: 143.00 mm
width: 100.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider