Remember Me? Finding the Hidden Jewish Children of the Holocaust
They were a generation of young fugitives, hiding from the Nazi hunters intent on murdering their families.
Their nameless faces stare out at the numerous photographers who captured the awful moments in time and now an effort is being made to find them.
Remember Me ? is a project launched by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. to find the children in the photos, collect their stories and videotape an interview with the now-grown survivors. On the website, next to each photograph, a brief paragraph appeals to the reader: .
Many of those photographed do not necessarily remember the details of their past which is why the photos themselves are so important.
Children were uprooted from their homes, wrenched from their parents and forced to flee on a journey they could not understand. Some learned to survive in the forests, others in the sewers and on the streets. Some were placed with Christian families and took on new identities, and a few hid in the convents of the Roman Catholic Church. A precious few even made it on to the lifesaving Kinder Transport that brought them all the way to the Land of Israel.
The older ones, who didn't flee, or who were caught and deemed strong enough to survive, were transported to the concentration camps. There they were put to work as Nazi slaves.
It was a nightmare that most chose to lock away from the light of day-to-day memory.
Many of the photos were taken from 1945 to 1947 and drawn from the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives. Others are from Kloster Indersdorf (a displaced Jewish children's home in Bavaria), and are part of the collection at the Holocaust Memorial Museum itself. The latter pictures children holding placards with their names, ostensibly in the hope they might be able to reconnect with loved ones.
So far, at least 180 children have been identified through the project. Some of them live today all over the world, in the U.S., Canada, Israel, and in various countries in Europe and Australia. Ten are dead, according to the Associated Press , including author Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird) who committed suicide in 1991.
More than 61,500 people from 150 countries have visited the website , including many who offer to help track others down.
Interviews are conducted by five specially-trained museum workers in English, Hebrew and French. Michlean Amir, a reference coordinator, is the staffer who conducts the interviews in Hebrew.
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They are among the innumerable Holocaust-era secrets that have been unlocked through the International Tracing Service, through which the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, helps survivors and others search thousands of wartime
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC has launched a project to identify long-lost children who survived the genocide of Jews. by Hana Levi Julian They were a generation of young fugitives, hiding from the Nazi hunters intent on murdering
“It makes it difficult to trace family when you're David, the son of Joseph,” Isman said. But the DC area offers some missing pieces. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in the District keeps International Tracing Service records.
"They're going to put blocks and tripping points and reasons why you can't, but none of that really matters because of the persistence and the fact that it's right that this museum exist in Washington, DC"
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Sale Notes:This sale is from the collection of David Cheney who was the founder of a NH Holocaust museum called "Crossing the Wire" which later was downgraded to a traveling exhibition due to the crippling cost of running the museum. Everything in the sale came from his collection and is being sold without reserve. Nothing will be passed or 'bought in'. Some historically unique items from the collection will be donated along with a final monetary donation in David Cheney's name to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. We (the auction house) would like to make it clear that the items being sold in this sale are historic items. The first collectors of WWII items generally were US and Allied forces taking them in the context of "spoils of war". In no way does this sale glorify Nazi Germany. The auction house took efforts to list any individuals and identifying information on documents and letters to assist anyone who may have a personal interest in those items. In the event the items sell and an individual finds a document of interest after the sale we promise to contact the buyer requesting their permission to be contacted by the interested party. We do however protect the privacy of all of our buyers and therefore can not guarantee the ability to provide that information. The consignor/collector of these items believed strongly in documenting the atrocities of the Holocaust and spent years researching and creating displays for his museum which are a testimony for his passion for the history and the tragedy.
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