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Actions Displays	Remove from selection Add to selection Object numberM2009/098:004 DescriptionBlack and white photograph depicting Yola Schneider (nee Rawdin) (2nd from the right) collecting money for the Blue Box charity, Stuttgart, 27 March 1949. 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 1949 Subjectdisplaced persons, Tzedakah boxes, charity, child survivors, fundraising, Zionism Object namephotographs Dimensions height: 85.00 mm width: 55.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider

Object numberM2009/098:004

DescriptionBlack and white photograph depicting Yola Schneider (nee Rawdin) (2nd from the right) collecting money for the Blue Box charity, Stuttgart, 27 March 1949.

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 1949

Subjectdisplaced persons, Tzedakah boxes, charity, child survivors, fundraising, Zionism

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Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider

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