Bojdman family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Photographs; some found after the mass murder in Łuck ghetto on August 19-23, 1942 in Hirka Polanka, during which 18,000 Jews were murdered, among them Froim Aron Bojdman, Rywka Bojdman, donor’s maternal grandparents and Rachela, Abram and Leib Bojdman, siblings of Estera Bojdman, later Ettinger. As well as Stella Ettinger, donor’s paternal grandmother and her son Aleksander Ettinger. Other photographs are from 1944-1946 in Łuck and later in Warsaw. Correspondence and documents; letters from Estera’s cousins in USSR and others; list of Germans and Ukrainians who tortured and murdered Jews in the Łuck ghetto prepared by Estera; Register of Residents in the building at 66 Kościuszki in Łuck, which belonged to Rywka Bojdman; document attesting that this building was owned by Rywka Bojdman, in Russian; !2/8/1944; diary kept by Estera from April 1944 till June 1944 in Polish; High School Diploma of Josef Ettinger dated 6/1935; Diploma from the Tashkent University, c. 1942 as extramural student of law; Glass Jar; filled with earth from the site of mass murder in August 1942 in Połonka (Hirka Polanka) by Estera Bojdman; c. 1944

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Hanna Ettinger-Neuss.