Embroidered napkin that Noemi Marosi made for her mother's birthday in the Bergen-Belsen camp
The Marosi family before the war
Embroidered napkin that Noemi Marosi made for her mother's birthday in the Bergen-Belsen camp
The Marosi family before the war
Blanka and Ignac Marosi and their daughters Judith and Noemi lived in Nove Zamky, Czechoslovakia. In May 1944, when the deportations from the ghetto to camps in Poland began, the family managed to escape to the city of Nitra, but in October they were arrested. Ignac was sent to a number of camps in Germany and was murdered. Blanka and her daughters were deported to Bergen-Belsen.
In January 1945, while they were still in the camp, Blanka marked her fortieth birthday. Noemi and Judith made small gifts for her, an embroidered bookmark and cloth napkin. Embroidered in the center of the napkin Blanka received from her daughters is the date of her birthday: 11 January 1945.
Blanka and her daughters survived the Holocaust. Many years later, Noemi and Judith donated the embroidered napkin to Yad Vashem for posterity.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection Donated by Noemi (Marosi) Rottenberg, Haifa; Yehudit (Marosi) Konigsberg, Kibbutz Hahotrim