Maria Strashnaya family collection

Identifier: irn563578
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 2017 by Vasilii Edeniuc, great-grandson of Maria Strashnaya and grandson of Ivan Strashnyi and Ksenia Strashnaya.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a bucket and pitcher relating to the experiences of Maria Strashnaya and the Strashnaya family, who concealed their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in Beleavinţi, Romania (now Moldova), during the Holocaust.

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Wooden bucket owned by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564569
- English
- overall: Height: 18.250 inches (46.355 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Wooden bucket used by Maria Strashnaya and her family, who hid their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in the attic of their house in Beleavinți, Romania (today Moldova). The Strashnaya’s hid them in the summer of 1941. Maria lived in a region known historically as Bessarabia, with her son, Ivan Strashnyi, daughter-in-law, Ksenia Strashnaya, and their young daughters, Maria (later Edeniuc) and Eugeniia. Following World War I (1914-1918), the area where they lived became part of Romania. On June 28, 1940, Romania ceded the region to the Soviet Union. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union...
Clay water pitcher used by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn564571
- English
- overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Diameter: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Clay pitcher used by Maria Strashnaya and her family, who hid their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in the attic of their house in Beleavinți, Romania (today Moldova). The Strashnaya’s hid them in the summer of 1941. Maria lived in a region known historically as Bessarabia, with her son, Ivan Strashnyi, daughter-in-law, Ksenia Strashnaya, and their young daughters, Maria (later Edeniuc) and Eugeniia. Following World War I (1914-1918), the area where they lived became part of Romania. On June 28, 1940, Romania ceded the region to the Soviet Union. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union ...

Maria Strashnaya family collection

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Wooden bucket owned by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors

Clay water pitcher used by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors