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Izak Rozenwasser collection
Portrait of Chaim Rozenwasser, done by his daughter, Hela, when she was about 18 years old and living in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland. The Rozenwasser family was imprisoned there in September 1940, following the German occupation of Poland. In June, 1942, Chaim died. That September, her mother, Rajzl, was deported to the Chelmno killing center. Hela died of tuberculosis on May 11, 1943; her older brother, Szmul, would die 2 months later. Only her brother, Izak, age 24, who was deported in February 1944, to Hasag to serve as slave labor, survived the Holocaust.