Overview
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- Glass jar filled with earth from the site of mass murder in August 1942 in Połonka (Hirka Polanka) by Estera Bojdman; c. 1944.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hanna Ettinger-Neuss In Memory of the Bojdman and the Ettinger families murdered in the Łuck ghetto
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- Restrictions on use. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum does not own copyright to this material. No information about the copyright was included on the Deed of Gift.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The jar was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Hanna Ettinger-Neuss.
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- 2024-02-21 15:15:58
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Also in Bojdman family collection
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
Bojdman family papers
Document
The Bojdman family papers include correspondence, a diary, and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Estera Bojdman and her family in Łuck, Poland, in the Łuck ghetto, and in hiding. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war diplomas for Estera and her husband, Josef Ettinger. Correspondence includes letters to Estera from Michail Kaniewskyn who helped Estera after liberation, from her cousin who was in the Soviet Army, and to Estera from Wowa and Nachum Shrrachman in Frunze. Photographs and clippings include prewar and wartime photographs of Estera and Jozef as well as photographs of Froim and Rywka Bojdman, Rachela, Abram, and Leib Bojdman, Stella Ettinger, and Aleksander Ettinger. Some photographs were found after the uprising in the Łuck ghetto in August 1942. Also included are wartime photographs in Łuck and postwar in Warsaw. Education material include a high school diploma issued to Josef Ettinger, a diploma in engineering from Tashkent University, and a copy of Estera high school diploma. The diary, in Polish, was kept by Estera from March-June 1944 while she was in hiding. The collection also includes a certificate issued to Estera attesting that the stated building was owned by Rywka Bojdman, a registration book listing the residents in the building at 66 Kościuszki in Łuck which belonged to Rywka Bojdman, a list, prepared by Estera, of Germans and Ukrainians who tortured and murdered Jews in the Łuck ghetto, and documents found by Estera in 1944 in attic of her mother’s building.
