This blouse, that Chana donated to Yad Vashem, had been sewn for her by her nanny before the war. A yellow star was sewn onto it at a later date. Chana wore this blouse throughout her time in the camps. As she didn't have anything else to wear, she continued to wear it even after liberation.
Chana Zelmanovicz née Kuklinska was born in 1924 in Sosnowiec, Poland, the sixth of Abraham and Rela Kuklinska's eight children. A week before the outbreak of the war, the family fled from the town of Chorzow where they lived, to the city of Dąbrowa.
In the course of the Holocaust, Chana was imprisoned in three camps. Throughout, she wore the blouse that her nanny had sewn for her as a child. There is a tear where the yellow star used to be.
In addition to the blouse, Chana also donated a diary that she wrote a few weeks after the liberation, and a watch given to her for safekeeping by her brother-in-law Itche when they met in the Blechhammer camp. Chana kept the watch in the rubber boots that she wore for work in the camp kitchen.