Object numberM2009/098:003
DescriptionBlack and white photograph of a group of children from the Jewish children's DP camp in Aschau, Bavaria, 1946. Yola is pictured 2nd from the right, standing. All the children are identified; Yola knows how each of them survived the war: Tsippora and Braha survived in the forest, Shlomo survived Buchenwald. See the diagram attached for the identification of the children.
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.
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 1946
Subjectdisplaced persons, DP Camps, survivors, child survivors, liberation
Object namephotographs
Dimensions
- height: 75.00 mm
width: 105.00 mm
Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider