Anni Zajac Leist collection

Identifier: irn514628
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514628

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Anna Zajac Leist.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a green skirt suit relating to the experiences of Anna Zajac (later Leist) and her family in prewar Berlin, Germany, and a 1939 letter sent from Poland by her father Wolf to Anna, who had escaped to England on a Kindertransport.

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Hand sewn green skirt and matching jacket saved from Berlin and worn by a Kindertransport refugee
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn514630
- English
- 1937
- a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) b: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Dark green skirt suit worn by Anna Zajac that was being made by her mother Dora when she died of tuberculosis on January 5, 1938, in Berlin, Germany. Anna retrieved it after her mother's funeral and her sister Lydia finished the hem. She also had it altered to fit her better and wore it on Yom Kippur for the next several years. Anna, her parents Dora and Wolf, and 9 siblings were living in Berlin when, in 1933, the Nazi regime came to power. In 1935, her father, a tailor, was deported to his native Poland by the government in its efforts to cleanse Germany of Jews. In 1936, the children, ex...

Anni Zajac Leist collection

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Hand sewn green skirt and matching jacket saved from Berlin and worn by a Kindertransport refugee