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Sarah Froiman letter

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.A.0132 | RG Number: RG-10.179

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    Sarah Froiman letter

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    Description
    Sarah Froiman, a Polish Jewish woman who was imprisoned by the Nazis during the Holocaust, wrote this letter shortly before being killed when the Germans shot to death all of the Jewish slave laborers from the Rudzki factory in Mińsk Mazowiecki. She describes hiding among Christians, the horror of her situation, and her fear that she would soon be killed, and she begs for help.
    Date
    creation:  1943
    Collection Creator
    Sarah Froiman
    Biography
    Sarah Froiman (1915-1943) was born in Poland. During the Holocaust, she was confined to the Mińsk Mazowiecki ghetto and forced to perform slave labor at the Rudzki factory. She had planned to join her brother Isadore in hiding with Marianna Gut (later named Righteous Among the Nations) on June 7, 1943, but she was shot to death along with her sister Etel (17 years old), brother Mordechai (12 years old), and the other workers when the factory was liquidated on June 5, 1943.

    Physical Details

    Language
    Yiddish
    Genre/Form
    Letter.
    Extent
    1 folder

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    Conditions on Access
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    Conditions on Use
    Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

    Keywords & Subjects

    Geographic Name
    Mińsk Mazowiecki (Poland)

    Administrative Notes

    Legal Status
    Permanent Collection
    Provenance
    In May 1943, Sarah Froiman wrote a last letter to her family from the Mińsk Mazowiecki labor camp in which she and some of her siblings were imprisoned. Her brother, Isadore, kept the letter. In July 1993, he donated it to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.
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