The Holocaust

The Final Stages of the War and the Aftermath

The Anguish of Liberation and the Surviving Remnant

Artifacts
  • When the war ended, the Joint Distribution Committee asked the Jews in Eretz Israel to help supply rings and wedding canopies (Hupot) so that wedding ceremonies could be conducted in the DP camps. These items were used by thousands of Holocaust survivors who were eager to get married and start new families.
  • Mirror containing photos of Paul and Tereza Vadasz’s two children, Robi and Guri, age five and three, who were deported together with their parents in 1944 from Oradea Mare, Hungary to Auschwitz and murdered there.
  • Judith Shapiro, born in 1932, was deported from the Vilna Ghetto to a forced-labor camp in Riga. There, she worked entwining copper wires for manufacturing field telephones. After the liberation, and while in the Zeilsheim DP camp in Germany, she created works of art from copper wires.
  • Writing Set, Cyprus, 1947
  • Menorah incorporating the word “Cyprus” beneath the candleholders

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