Leo Melamed collection

Identifier: irn601813
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn601813

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Leo Melamed.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a crayon box, documents, and a publication relating to the experiences of Lejb Melamdowicz (Leo Melamed) and his family before and during the Holocaust when they fled Bialystok, Poland, to Vilna, and then Kobe, Japan, until reaching the United States in 1941.

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Wooden crayon box received by a Polish Jewish refugee boy in school in Japan
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14117
- English
- overall: Height: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Inscribed wooden crayon box given to 8 year old Lejb Melamdowicz in school in Kobe, Japan, where his family escaped to safety with transit visas supplied by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Leo was from Bialystok, Poland, where he lived with his parents, Icchok and Fejga. In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. His father, a mathematics teacher and city council member, fearing arrest, fled to Vilna where Lejb and Fejga joined him in October. Vilna was initially transferred by the Soviets to Lithuania, until August 1940, when it was ...
School book received by a Polish Jewish refugee boy in school in Japan
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn14121
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Textbook given to 8 year old Lejb Melamdowicz in school in Kobe, Japan, where his family escaped to safety with transit visas supplied by Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Soviet-occupied Kovno, (Kaunas), Lithuania. Leo was from Bialystok, Poland, where he lived with his parents, Icchok and Fejga. In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. His father, a mathematics teacher and city council member, fearing arrest, fled to Vilna where Lejb and Fejga joined him in October. Vilna was initially transferred by the Soviets to Lithuania, until August 1940, when it was annexed into the So...

Leo Melamed collection

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Wooden crayon box received by a Polish Jewish refugee boy in school in Japan

School book received by a Polish Jewish refugee boy in school in Japan