Etti Singer a thirteen year old girl from Germany, was sent to the Netherlands in 1938 in the framework of the Kindertransports. Etti received the blanket in the children's home in the Hague where she and her sister, Ruth, were sent. When they were sent from there to the Westerbork Transit Camp Etti took the blanket with her.
The girls' parents stayed in Germany and a few years would pass before they were reunited, but they managed to keep up a correspondence until the girls were sent to Westerbork. Through a personal connection with the Romanian consul, the Singers managed to receive Romanian passports. The consul contacted Westerbork Camp and requested the girls' release. The girls' mother, Malka, left Germany and arrived at the camp, presenting a letter from the Romanian consul, the camp commander freed the girls and even supplied them with provisions. The family then fled to Romania for the duration of the war. Etti preserved the blanket throughout the war and then brought it with her when she immigrated to Israel.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection.
Donated by Sara Erell, Herzliya, Israel