Moshe Yidel Gelbart Funeral Memorial Album, Book 2
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Title:
Moshe Yidel Gelbart Funeral Memorial Album, Book 2
Date:
1935
Creator (Personal):
Geldbart
Description:
This memorial photograph album documents the funeral of Moshe Yidel Gelbart. Gelbart died of appendicitis on February 25, 1935, in Mogielnica, Poland. The album, made of fabric and paper, contains black and white photographs that chronicle Gelbart's funeral procession, his casket, mourners, and gravesite, including an image of Gelbart with his wife and son eight days before his death. The cover of this book pictures a broken candle and a broken tree, symbolic of a life cut short. Each page includes decorative labels in Hebrew. This album was given to one of his two brothers, George Goldberg or Israel Geldbart, in South Carolina.
Moshe Yidel Gelbart was born in 1897 to Chaim and Tobe Mindel Gelbart of Mogielnica, Poland. The Gelbarts had seven children total: daughters Sore Rivkah and Shafa; and sons Yisroel, Moshe Yidel, Fishl, Ruven, and Gershon. Moshe Yidel died February 25, 1935 from appendicitis. The rest of the family, except for Yisroel (Israel) and Gershon (George) who immigrated to the United States, perished during the Holocaust.
