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Two Jewish cousins greet one another upon their return to their hometown of Wlodawa after the war.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 07789
Two Jewish cousins greet one another upon their return to their hometown of Wlodawa after the war. Pictured are Sruel Bajtelman and Rachel Ejber.

Two Jewish cousins greet one another upon their return to their hometown of Wlodawa after the war.

Pictured are Sruel Bajtelman and Rachel Ejber.

Date
1945 September 11
Locale
Wlodawa, [Lublin] Poland
Variant Locale
Vlodava
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Poland
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rachel Ejber Birnbaum

About This Photograph

Biography
Rachel Birnbaum (born Rachel Ejber) was born in Wlodawa, Poland. She survived deportation to Sobibor and a period of hiding with peasants.

Sruel Bajtelman (1923-1945), a cousin of Rachel Ejber, was a Jewish resistance fighter who survived the Wlodawa ghetto. Soon after his return to his home town he was murdered by Poles.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Rachel Ejber Birnbaum
Source Record ID: Collections: 2004.416
 
Record last modified: 2001-09-02 00:00:00
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