Alona Frankel family collection

Identifier: irn36091
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Alona Frankel, the daughter of Gusta and Salomon Goldman.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts, drawings, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publication relating to the experiences of Gusta and Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family lived in hiding in the Lvov ghetto, and after the war in Krakow and following their emigration to Israel.

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Displaying items 1 to 20 of 55

Alona Frankel papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn37989
- English
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Original photographs: images of Goldman and Gruber families before the war in Oświęcim, Bochnia and Krakow, Poland; includes images of Salomon, Gusta and Ilona Goldman after the war in Krakow and later in Israel; Documents and correspondence: Salomon, Gusta and Ilona Goldman’s genuine and false ID’s and wartime letters; Drawings: by Ilona Goldman [donor] while in hiding and after the war; Maps: from newspapers on which Salomon Goldman marked the advancement of the Red Army.
Arbeiter [Laborer] armband embroidered with a Star of David and a red letter "A" worn in the Lvov ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38003
- English
- 1941-1943
- overall: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Arbeiter [Worker] armband embroidered with a red letter A within a blue Judenstern worn by Salomon Goldman to exit and return to the Lvov ghetto in German occupied Poland from 1941-43, for his job as an accountant at a slaughterhouse and tanning factory. He and his wife Gusta and daughter Ilona fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine), soon after the German invasion in September 1939. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and occupied Lvov, the Wehrmacht took over the factory. After several months, Salomon and his family were forced to move into the Jewish ghetto. In ...
Cloth work pass with an embroidered blue W used to exit and enter the Lvov ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38004
- English
- 1941-1943
- overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Embroidered work pass with a green border inside a plastic holder worn by Salomon Goldman to exit and return to the Lvov ghetto in German occupied Poland from 1941-43, for his job as an accountant at a slaughterhouse and tanning factory. He and his wife Gusta and daughter Ilona fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine), soon after the German invasion in September 1939. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and occupied Lvov, the Wehrmacht took over the factory. After several months, Salomon and his family were forced to move into the Jewish ghetto. In the spring of 194...
Cloth work pass with an embroidered black W used to enter and exit the Lvov ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38005
- English
- 1941-1943
- overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Embroidered work pass with a brown border in a plastic holder used by Salomon Goldman to exit and return to the Lvov ghetto in German occupied Poland from 1941-43, for his job as an accountant at a slaughterhouse and tanning factory. He and his wife Gusta and daughter Ilona fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine), soon after the German invasion in September 1939. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and occupied Lvov, the Wehrmacht took over the factory. After several months, Salomon and his family were forced to move into the Jewish ghetto. In the spring of 1942, f...
Wooden box with carved floral decorations used by a hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38012
- English
- 1941-1944
- overall: Height: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Width: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Wooden box with carved flowers used by Ilona Goldman to store the drawings that she made while in hiding in Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) from 1942-1944. The box may have originally belonged to a Jewish man who came daily from the ghetto to work in the factory where Ilona's father worked. Ilona's family lived at the factory and this man begged her mother to keep a locked wooden box with carved flowers for a few days. She uncomfortably said yes and he told her that if he did not return in a month, the contents were hers. He unlocked it to show it was filled with jewels. He came back two week...
Clear and white plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish emigrant
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38017
- English
- overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
White plastic eyeglasses worn by Gusta Goldman in Israel after she and her family immigrated from Krakow, Poland, in December 1949. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family was forced into the ghetto. Salomon worked as an accountant at a factory owned by the Wehrmacht. In the spring of 1942, fearing the liquidation of the ghetto, Salomon arranged a hiding place for them outside the ghetto with a former employee, Joze...
Brown plastic eyeglasses worn by a Jewish resident of the Lvov ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38023
- English
- 1941-1949
- overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Brown plastic eyeglasses that may have been worn by Gusta Goldman while she lived in hiding in Lvov, Poland, from 1942-1944. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family was forced into the ghetto. Salomon worked as an accountant at a factory owned by the Wehrmacht. In the spring of 1942, fearing the liquidation of the ghetto, Salomon arranged a hiding place for them outside the ghetto with a former employee, Jozef Jozak...
Gold metal eyeglasses worn by a former resident of the Lvov ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38024
- English
- overall: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Gold metal eyeglasses worn by Gusta Goldman. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family was forced into the ghetto. Salomon worked as an accountant at a factory owned by the Wehrmacht. In the spring of 1942, fearing the liquidation of the ghetto, Salomon arranged a hiding place for them outside the ghetto with a former employee, Jozef Jozak. However, he would not hide Ilona because it would be too hard to conceal a liv...
Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge, Volume 1 Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38069
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
One of the few books three year old Ilona Goldman had to look at while she lived in hiding in a small room with her parents from late 1942-July 1944. The room had been the office of a Jewish gynecologist who was deported with his family and killed in a camp. Ilona felt the books saved her from life where the daily reality was that their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors, as well as the German soldiers, wanted to kill them. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany ...
Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge, Volume 2 Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38070
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
One of the few books three year old Ilona Goldman had to look at while she lived in hiding in a small room with her parents from late 1942-July 1944. The room had been the office of a Jewish gynecologist who was deported with his family and killed in a camp. Ilona felt the books saved her from life where the daily reality was that their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors, as well as the German soldiers, wanted to kill them. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany ...
Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge, Volume 3 Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38071
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
One of the few books three year old Ilona Goldman had to look at while she lived in hiding in a small room with her parents from late 1942-July 1944. The room had been the office of a Jewish gynecologist who was deported with his family and killed in a camp. Ilona felt the books saved her from life where the daily reality was that their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors, as well as the German soldiers, wanted to kill them. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany ...
Encyclopedia of Sexual Knowledge, Volume 4 Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38072
- English
- 1937
- Updated 1 year ago
One of the few books three year old Ilona Goldman had to look at while she lived in hiding in a small room with her parents from late 1942-July 1944. The room had been the office of a Jewish gynecologist who was deported with his family and killed in a camp. Ilona felt the books saved her from life where the daily reality was that their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors, as well as the German soldiers, wanted to kill them. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany ...
History of the Jesuits Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38073
- English
- 1929
- Updated 1 year ago
Ilona's favorite of the few books the three year old Ilona Goldman had to look at while living in hiding in a small room with her parents from late 1942-July 1944. The room had been the office of a Jewish gynecologist who was deported with his family and killed in a camp. Ilona felt the books saved her from life where the daily reality was that their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors, as well as the German soldiers, wanted to kill them. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine)....
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38074
- English
- 1930
- Updated 1 year ago
One of the few books three year old Ilona Goldman had to look at while she lived in hiding in a small room with her parents from late 1942-July 1944. The room had been the office of a Jewish gynecologist who was deported with his family and killed in a camp. Ilona felt the books saved her from life where the daily reality was that their Ukrainian and Polish neighbors, as well as the German soldiers, wanted to kill them. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with two year old, Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany ...
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38075
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Cookbook given by Salomon Goldman to his bride, Gusta Gruber, as a wedding gift in 1936. They kept this book with them while in hiding in Lvov, Poland, from 1942-1944. They were always hungry and, as a diversion, every day Gusta dictated an elaborate menu which Salomon recorded n a notebook. She never repeated a menu and they sometimes used this cookbook for ideas. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon, with 2 year old Ilona, fled Krakow for Russian controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family was forced into the ghet...
Book
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn38076
- English
- 1942
- Updated 1 year ago
Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Gusta and Salomon Frankel, with 2 year old Ilona, fled Krakow for the Russian controlled Lvov. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the family was forced into the ghetto where Salomon worked as an accountant at a factory owned by the Wehrmacht. In the spring of 1942, fearing the liquidation of the ghetto, Salomon arranged a hiding place for them outside the ghetto with a former employee, Jozef Jozak. However, He would not hide Ilona because it would be too hard to conceal a lively 4 year-old child. Ilona was smuggled out to...
For Mommy Color drawing of a boy and girl holding a blue and white flag created by a hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46296
- English
- pictorial area: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Colored pencil drawing of a boy and girl holding a blue and white flag, the national colors of Israel, with a large Star of David created by Ilona Goldman around 1947. During the war, Ilona lived in hiding in Poland from 1942-1944. She made many drawings during this time, especially when, at age four, she was separated from her parents and placed with the Polish peasant family of Hania Seremet, who agreed to hide her for a fee. Drawings were the only way for the talkative child, not yet able to write, to communicate with her parents. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ilon...
Pages from a record book with sketches created by a hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46297
- English
- 1942-1943
- pictorial area: Height: 9.375 inches (23.813 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Four pages from a record book with colored pencil drawings created by 5 year old Ilona Goldman while living in hiding in Poland from 1942-1944. A few pages are covered with drawings and doodles by Ilona. Most pages have Polish writing in an adult hand, some of these have small drawings by Ilona. In spring 1942, Ilona was separated from her parents and placed with the Polish peasant family of Hania Seremet, who agreed to hide Ilona for a fee. Drawings were the only way for the talkative child, not yet able to write, to communicate with her parents. Many drawings were done on the weekly lette...
How I am imagining Seder Pencil drawing of people seated for Seder created by a former hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46298
- English
- pictorial area: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 18.125 inches (46.038 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Pencil sketch of people seated for Seder dinner created by Ilona Goldman after the war. During the war, Ilona lived in hiding in Poland from 1942-1944. She made many drawings during this time, especially when, at age four, she was separated from her parents and placed with the Polish peasant family of Hania Seremet, who agreed to hide her for a fee. Drawings were the only way for the talkative child, not yet able to write, to communicate with her parents. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ilona with her parents, Salomon and Gusta fled Krakow for Soviet controlled Lvov (Lv...
From Memory Color drawing of girls visiting a medieval castle created by a former hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46299
- English
- pictorial area: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 18.125 inches (46.038 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Colored pencil drawing of a group of young girls visiting a medieval castle created by 10 year old Ilona Goldman in November 1947. In spring 1942, 4 year old Ilona was separated from her parents and placed with the Polish peasant family of Hania Seremet, who agreed to hide her for a fee. Drawings were the only way for the talkative child, not yet able to write, to communicate with her parents. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ilona's parents, Salomon and Gusta, with Ilona, fled Krakow for Soviet controlled Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine). When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 19...