Identification tag issued to a forced laborer in the Warsaw ghetto

Gina Tabaczynska (later Eugenia Shrut) was born on May 20, 1925, in Klodawa, Poland. She was the youngest child of Naftali, a grain merchant, and Rozalia Szczecinska Tabaczynska. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. In November 1940, the Tabaczynski family fled Klodawa because of the anti-Jewish persecution. They were later forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Gina, her parents, and her brother, Pawel, along with his wife, Bela, worked in the business office of the Schultz Firma which protected them from deportation through the spring of 1943. In April 1943, when the Germans began to liquidate the ghetto, the residents launched an armed revolt against the German occupiers. The Ghetto Uprising ended on May 16. Gina was the only member of her family to survive.