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Maria Strashnaya family collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of a bucket and pitcher relating to the experiences of Maria Strashnaya and the Strashnaya family, who concealed their Jewish neighbors, the Gurvits family, in Beleavinţi, Romania (now Moldova), during the Holocaust.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Vasilii Edeniuc, great-grandson of Maria Strashnaya and grandson of Ivan Strashnyi and Ksenia Strashnaya.
Date
approximately 1939-approximately 1945
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Wooden bucket owned by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors

Object | Accession Number: 2017.648.1

Geography
use: Briceni (Moldova : Raion)
Date
use:  approximately 1939-approximately 1945

Clay water pitcher used by a Romanian family that sheltered their Jewish neighbors

Object | Accession Number: 2017.648.2

Geography
use: Briceni (Moldova : Raion)
Date
use:  approximately 1939-approximately 1945
 
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