Michael Gorenstein family collection

Identifier: irn51023
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 2013 by Michael Gorenstein, the brother of Dady Gorenstein.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a drawing, a photograph, and a letter relating to the experiences of Dady Gorenstein and his parents, Moritz and Laura Gorenstein, during the Holocaust when Dady died in the Mogilev-Podolski ghetto, and after the Holocaust in Transnistria.

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Gorenstein family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn84746
- English
- folder oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 9 months ago
Contains a photograph and Red Cross letter concerning the experiences of Morris and Lora Gorenstein, who were deported to Mogilev in Transnistria [modern day Moldova] with their children Harry and Dady. The letter is written from Morris Gorenstein in the Jewish Community of Transnistria to family in New York, who then responded and returned the letter inquiring after one family member, Dady, who Morris did not mention had died in Transnistria. The photograph is a post-war image of Morris, Lora, Harry and Michael Gorenstein.
Drawing of a memorial sculpture made to honor a Romanian Jewish boy who died in the ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn84761
- English
- 1942
- overall: Height: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm)
- Updated 9 months ago
Pastel drawing for a sculpture to be made in memory of 5 year old Dady Gorenstein, who died of typhus in the Mogilev-Podolski ghetto in 1942. His mother Laura wanted a monument created for Dady in Transnistria and had this drawing made of the potential design. In 1940, Dady lived in Craiova, Romania, with his parents Moritz and Laura, and infant brother Harry. That November, Romania joined the Axis alliance. The Antonescu government was violently antisemitic and 1000s of Jews were massacred in 1941. In October, the family was sent to Cernauti ghetto in northern Romania. In November, they we...

Michael Gorenstein family collection

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Gorenstein family papers

Drawing of a memorial sculpture made to honor a Romanian Jewish boy who died in the ghetto