Dina Ostrower collection

Identifier: irn46947
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46947

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Dina Pickholz Ostrower. An accretion was received in 2013.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a blouse, head covering, and photographs relating to the experiences of Donia Pickholz Ostrower before and during the Holocaust when she lived in Synowodzko Nizne and Stryj, Poland, and then under an assumed identity in Bolechow, Poland, and after the war in Cyprus and Israel with her husband Josef. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Dina Pickholz Ostrower photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn48007
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Photographs of the the Pickholz family in Synowodzko Nizne and in Stryj, Poland before the war; photographs of Donia during the war in Bolechow, when she worked in a German beerhouse pretending to be an illiterate Ukrainian girl; photographs of Donia with the Jewish couple Malka and Shlomo Reinharz, whose lives she saved during the Holocaust; and photographs of Josef Ostrower and his bride Donia after the war, in Cyprus and later in Israel.
Embroidered Ukrainian blouse worn by a Jewish woman living under an assumed identity
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn48009
- English
- overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 17.875 inches (45.403 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Traditional cross-stitched Ukrainian peasant blouse worn by 19 year old Donia Pickholz while living in hiding under an assumed identity in Bolechow, Poland (Bolekhiv, Ukraine.) Donia and her family lived in Soviet occupied Stryj, Poland. In June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and the Germans forced the Jews into a ghetto. In 1942, the family was put on a rail car destined for Belzec killing center. Donia jumped out the train window and returned to Stryj to live with her aunt and uncle. They got her false identity papers as a Christian Ukrainian girl, Efrozyna Skobelek. Donia sp...
Dark red floral head covering worn by a Jewish woman living under an assumed identity
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn48010
- English
- overall: Height: 40.375 inches (102.553 cm) | Width: 39.125 inches (99.378 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Dark red traditional Ukrainian scarf with a floral pattern worn by 19 year old Donia Pickholz while living in hiding under an assumed identity in Bolechow, Poland (Bolekhiv, Ukraine.) Donia and her family lived in Soviet occupied Stryj, Poland. In June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union and the Germans forced the Jews into a ghetto. In 1942, the family was put on a rail car destined for Belzec killing center. Donia jumped out the train window and returned to Stryj to live with her aunt and uncle. They got her false identity papers as a Christian Ukrainian girl, Efrozyna Skobelek. D...
Dina Ostrower photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn50731
- English
- 1931-1948
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Collection of ten photographs depicting Josef Ostrower, Dina Pickholz's husband, as a student in the Jewish Gymnasium in Stryj, Poland in 1931 and images showing Dina Pickholtz and Josef Ostrower and friends in DP camps in Germany and Cyprus after the war.

Dina Ostrower collection

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Dina Pickholz Ostrower photographs

Embroidered Ukrainian blouse worn by a Jewish woman living under an assumed identity

Dark red floral head covering worn by a Jewish woman living under an assumed identity

Dina Ostrower photographs