My object is my Great Opa’s gold wedding ring, from his wedding in 1936. It’s traditional for Jewish people to be married with a gold wedding ring.  My Great Opa and Oma fled Germany and moved to Amsterdam in anticipation of World War Two. My Oma was born in Amsterdam when the Nazis came, she was rescued and hidden by the Dutch underground and her parents were captured by the Nazis and taken away to the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. My Great Opa and Oma were about to be sent away to die in Auschwitz but before they were deported they gave their rings to my Great Uncle, who after the war was over, took it with him to the United States. When he arrived in the United States he gave the ring to my Oma, who had already come to the United States with her Opa, Levi Katz. She used this at her wedding in 1961 and eventually gave it to my father who used it at his wedding in 2002. This ring means a lot to me and my family because it survived World War Two and it’s the last remaining object that belonged to the two family members who died in the concentration camps. It’s also a remembrance of the future generations of my family to make sure they remember the horrors of the Holocaust. 

– NK

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