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Two Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow.

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    Two Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow.
    Two Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow. Pictured from left to right are Ignatz Kurek and Jankl Moshe Gornicki. Gornicki perished in Riga.

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    Two Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow.

    Pictured from left to right are Ignatz Kurek and Jankl Moshe Gornicki. Gornicki perished in Riga.
    Date
    1942 - 1943
    Locale
    Sdroin, [Lodz] Poland
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Irving Kurek

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Irving Kurek

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    Photo Designation
    GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (O)

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    Biography
    Ignatz (later Irving) Kurek was born in 1923 in Ozorkow, Poland (near Lodz). He was sent to the Sdroin labor camp, where the prisoners were tasked with constructing a new highway. From Sdroin, Ignatz was sent to Palemonas in Lithuania, Kaiserwald in Latvia, and then to Buchenwald and Stutthof. He was liberated from Theresienstadt in May 1945.
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    2004-04-27 00:00:00
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