Improvised Grave-Marker for Mosze Jakubson, who Died on 27 July 1942 Aged 17 in the Lodz Ghetto, and was Buried in the Ghetto

Moric-Moritz-Mosze Jakubson contracted typhus in the Lodz ghetto. On his sickbed he wrote in his diary:

"I know what I'll do. We'll go to Palestine as we hoped… I'll get well there thanks to the sun, the dry air and Mother's care."

But Mosze didn't get better and didn't achieve his dream of immigrating to Eretz Israel; he died on 27 July 1942 and was buried in the cemetery in the ghetto.

Two years after his death, a short time before the liquidation of the ghetto, his sister Sonia escaped the ghetto. During the emotional family farewells, her brother Aaron said:

"You're crying because you're leaving your dear brother's grave behind… if you believe that there will even be graves left after the Jews, maybe you will be among those fortunate enough to stay alive and find (after the war) our brother's grave…"

Sonia survived, immigrated to Eretz Israel and brought her brother Mosze's grave-marker with her.

Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Sonia Tsur, Tel Aviv, Israel