Sydney Jewish Museum | Details | Marianne Lawan (nee Kohn) and mother Rosa Kohn, wearing cloth Star of David Armbands, 1941

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Acties Weergave	Marianne Lawan (nee Kohn) and mother Rosa Kohn, wearing cloth Star of David Armbands, 1941 Verwijder uit selectie Voeg toe aan selectie ObjectnummerM2009/031:001 TitelMarianne Lawan (nee Kohn) and mother Rosa Kohn, wearing cloth Star of David Armbands, 1941 BeschrijvingB/W scanned photograph of Marianne Lawan (nee Kohn), aged 11 1/2, with her mother, Rosa Kohn (nee Hefter), wearing the cloth Star of David armband on the left hand side of their long-sleeved clothing. The photo was taken 1941 in Teschen, she says. Teschen was a border town near the Czech and Polish borders, but was technically part of Poland in 1939 when the war began. The armbands Marianne and Rosa are wearing are a sign of the official Jewish stigma in occupied Poland. Soon after this photo was taken, Rosa was taken to the Warsaw Ghetto and was never heard from again. Marianne ended up in a ghetto near Katowice, in Upper Silesia, and spent the war years in a forced labour camp. At the end of the war Marianne was 16 and alone, the rest of her family having perished. She came to Australia on her own in 1948 and married on 21 June 1949. Vervaardiging plaatsTeschen, Poland Datum circa 1941 Onderwerpphotographs, mothers, daughters, armbands, Star of David, discrimination, ghettos, Jews, stigma Objectnaamphotographs Materiaalphotographic emulsion, paper, paper Formaat width: 132.00 mm height: 180.00 mm Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Marianne Lawan

ObjectnummerM2009/031:001

TitelMarianne Lawan (nee Kohn) and mother Rosa Kohn, wearing cloth Star of David Armbands, 1941

BeschrijvingB/W scanned photograph of Marianne Lawan (nee Kohn), aged 11 1/2, with her mother, Rosa Kohn (nee Hefter), wearing the cloth Star of David armband on the left hand side of their long-sleeved clothing. The photo was taken 1941 in Teschen, she says. Teschen was a border town near the Czech and Polish borders, but was technically part of Poland in 1939 when the war began. The armbands Marianne and Rosa are wearing are a sign of the official Jewish stigma in occupied Poland. Soon after this photo was taken, Rosa was taken to the Warsaw Ghetto and was never heard from again. Marianne ended up in a ghetto near Katowice, in Upper Silesia, and spent the war years in a forced labour camp. At the end of the war Marianne was 16 and alone, the rest of her family having perished. She came to Australia on her own in 1948 and married on 21 June 1949.

Vervaardiging plaatsTeschen, Poland

Datum circa 1941

Onderwerpphotographs, mothers, daughters, armbands, Star of David, discrimination, ghettos, Jews, stigma

Objectnaamphotographs

Materiaalphotographic emulsion, paper, paper

Formaat

Credit lineSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Marianne Lawan

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