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Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

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    Collection Summary
    The collection consists of a rosary, St. Anthony statuette, bible, and a doll's suitcase relating to the experiences of Laura and Selma (Zofia) Schwarzwald in Lvov and other areas of Poland where they lived in hiding under assumed indentites as Catholics during and after the Holocaust.
    Provenance
    The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992 by Sophie Turner-Zaretsky.
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    Rosary received by a Jewish child who was converted to Catholicism while in hiding

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.1

    Geography
    received: Busko-Zdroj (Poland)
    Date
    received:  1945 January

    St. Anthony statuette received by a Jewish child who was living in hiding as a Polish Catholic

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.2 a-c

    Geography
    received: Busko-Zdroj (Poland)

    Bible

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.3

    Date
    received:  1944
    publication/distribution:  1927

    Miniature doll's suitcase given postwar to Jewish child who had lived in hiding as a Polish Catholic

    Object | Accession Number: 1992.82.4

    Geography
    received: Busko-Zdroj (Poland)
    Date
    received:  approximately 1948
    Record last modified:
    2022-07-28 18:27:10
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