N° d'objetM2009/098:002
DescriptionUNRRA School Atlas issued to Yola Rawdin while attending school in a DP camp in Stuttgart. The atlas, containing maps of the continents, printed and distributed in Karlsruhe, Germany, by the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC). The Atlas was very precious to her as few school books were available after the War. She has outlined the map of Australia in pencil.
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.
Sujetchild survivors, establishing new life, schoolchildren, liberation, displaced persons, DP Camps, Displaced Persons camps
Nom d'objetmaps
Dimensions
- height: 210.00 mm
width: 250.00 mm
Langue
- German
Ligne de créditSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Mrs Yola Schneider