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The Morgenstern family poses with their rescuer, Walentyna Zak, while living in hiding.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 06255
The Morgenstern family poses with their rescuer, Walentyna Zak, while living in hiding. Pictures in front are the twins, Sylvia and Anna. Standing behind from left to right are Dorota Morgentstern, Maria Morgenstern, Stefania Minc and Walentyna Zak.

The Morgenstern family poses with their rescuer, Walentyna Zak, while living in hiding.

Pictures in front are the twins, Sylvia and Anna. Standing behind from left to right are Dorota Morgentstern, Maria Morgenstern, Stefania Minc and Walentyna Zak.

Date
1942 - 1945
Variant Locale
Allenstein
Photo Designation
RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Poland
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frank Morgens (Mieczyslaw Morgenstern)
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Biography
Frank Morgens (originally Mieczyslaw Morgenstern) grew up in Lodz. He was married to Maria Minc, who gave birth to twin daughters, Sylvia Awiwa and Anne Ileana in April 1939. During the war the family secured false papers and a place to live with the assistance of a Polish Catholic woman, Walentyna Zak. The Morgensterns lived out the war in Olsztyn, where they were joined by Maria's mother, Stefania Gutentaj Minc, and Mieczyslaw's mother Dorota Gotheil Morgenstern. Dorota came to live with them after escaping from the Warsaw ghetto.

Walentyna Zak converted to Judaism immediately after the war and married the Polish Jew, Zew Sztajnert. The couple moved to Israel in 1948.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Frank Morgens (Mieczyslaw Morgenstern)
Source Record ID: Collections: 1992.185.1
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-15 00:00:00
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