Photograph

Identifier
irn13458
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.113.33
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn13458

Extent and Medium

1 Photographic print,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lidia Siciarz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Ms. Lidia K. Siciarz

Scope and Content

Photographic image; black and white image of Lidia Kleinman, donor, hugging her cousin, Ola Weinberger (Ola Weinberger was the daughter of Berta Szwarcman, Aniuta's oldest sister, and Filip Weinberger, a pharmacist, who lived in Krynica; in 1943 the whole family was shot in a forest near Pinsk; donor notes that her grandmother, Basia Kagan Szwarcman, hid silverware in the garden of her house and during the mass executions she begged a German soldier to spare the life of Ola in return for the silver; Ola led the soldier to the garden and after recovering the treasure, he shot her); dated: 1935; location: Lacko, Poland

Genre

  • Document
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