NotesDonor doesn't remember this cup, presumably from the batch of stuff saved by the maid as described below. Marcus and Sarah Lager, grandparents of the donor, were born in Galicia. Marcus worked as a baker including for the railroad, for which he traveled from Austria to Romania. The couple went to Fiume in about 1912. They stayed in the free port of Fiume during World War I to avoid their sons having to go into the army. Only one went into the Austro-Hungarian army, the others didn't. The whole family survived WWI. Marcus was Orthodox, active with the synagogue in Fiume. He was very involved with assisting refugees from Poland and Russia after World War I. Donor remembers that toys and clothes of hers vanished, her grandfather had given them to refugee children. Marcus, Sarah and their youngest daughter were deported to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Their apartment was not ransacked after their deportation. The maid kept many of the things that she thought were important until after the war a member of the family went back and she gave the items to him.
