09/07/2025
La memoria passa anche attraverso gli oggetti: fragili, silenziosi, ma capaci di raccontare storie profonde. Come la coppa di Sylva, simbolo di amore, sopravvivenza e legame indissolubile tra madre e figlia.
Oggi è parte della collezione del Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah, ma appartiene a tutti noi.
Seguite la serie del progetto Le Case di Micòl:
ogni oggetto ha una voce e un’eredità da custodire.
🇬🇧 Memory also lives through objects: fragile, silent, yet capable of telling powerful stories.
Like Sylva’s cup — a symbol of love, survival, and the unbreakable bond between mother and daughter.
Today, it is part of the collection of the National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah, but it belongs to all of us.
Follow the series by the Le Case di Micòl project:
every object has a voice, and every voice carries a legacy worth preserving.
Objects that remember – A feature from our project
The National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS)
guides us through memory by way of what remains:
objects, fragments, and details
that carry powerful, moving stories.
With the series
we aim to share some of these items that speak of
relationships, survival, daily life interrupted and then reclaimed.
💡 Want to discover more?
Follow this series of posts: every object has a voice,
and every voice builds memory.
Today’s story: Sylva’s cup
a gift from a mother to her daughter
Sylva Sabbadini was arrested at just fifteen years old
in 1943 and deported to Auschwitz with her parents
grandmother, and uncle.
Only she and her mother Ester survived.
In January 1945, during the Nazis’ retreat and the
liberation of the camp, some of the survivors
opened warehouses where belongings confiscated
on arrival had been stored.
There, Ester found a chipped milk cup and
without knowing to whom it had belonged
gave it to her daughter.
🍀Sylva kept that cup for the rest of her life
as a symbol of her unbreakable bond with her mother.
It has been part of the MEIS collection for the past two years.
(Norway, Porsgrund factory, circa 1900,
printed porcelain with glaze.
Ferrara, National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah.
📷 Photo by Luca Gavagna, Le immagini)
