Frieda and Moshe Katz, both Holocaust survivors, met in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany when the war ended. As part of her vocational training in the camp, Frieda helped sew an Israeli flag in a sewing workshop. After the establishment of the State of Israel, Frieda and Moshe were finally able to immigrate – and they brought the flag with them.
Each year, on Israel’s Independence Day they displayed the flag that accompanied them from being interned to being citizens in a new independent Jewish country. Frieda and Moshe donated the flag to Yad Vashem for posterity, so that its story can be shared for generations to come.
Source: Yad Vashem
