Maria Strashnaya family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn564569
• English
• overall: Height: 18.250 inches (46.355 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Wooden bucket used by Maria Strashnaya and her family, who hid their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in the attic of their house in Beleavinți, Romania (today Moldova). The Strashnaya’s hid them in the summer of 1941. Maria lived in a region known historically as Bessarabia, with her son, Ivan Strashnyi, daughter-in-law, Ksenia Strashnaya, and their young daughters, Maria (later Edeniuc) and Eugeniia. Following World War I (1914-1918), the area where they lived became part of Romania. On June 28, 1940, Romania ceded the region to the Soviet Union. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn564571
• English
• overall: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Diameter: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Clay pitcher used by Maria Strashnaya and her family, who hid their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in the attic of their house in Beleavinți, Romania (today Moldova). The Strashnaya’s hid them in the summer of 1941. Maria lived in a region known historically as Bessarabia, with her son, Ivan Strashnyi, daughter-in-law, Ksenia Strashnaya, and their young daughters, Maria (later Edeniuc) and Eugeniia. Following World War I (1914-1918), the area where they lived became part of Romania. On June 28, 1940, Romania ceded the region to the Soviet Union. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union ...