Hashomer Hatzair Membership Issued to Amaraut Tainara, Lodz, Poland

Description

Front: Green card. One side has Hebrew text in black, other side has text in Polish. Both have serial number 1437. Back: Left side includes black and white photo of Tainara, who had dark hair and wore black. Beneath is printed text in Polish and Hebrew, and her name and location written in black ink. Two circular, purple handstamps. The right side contains a grid with Hebrew characters in each box.

Hashomer Hatzair is the oldest worldwide Socialist-Zionist youth movement in existence, believing that immigration to Palestine and learning agriculture for kibbutz life was the way to save Jewish youth. During the Holocaust, members focused on resistance against Nazis.