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Two female cousins pose wearing armbands in the Czestochowa ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 08825
Two female cousins pose wearing armbands in the Czestochowa ghetto. Pictured are Mania Leszczyk (right) and her cousin, Cela Dauman (left), both of whom survived the war.

Two female cousins pose wearing armbands in the Czestochowa ghetto.

Pictured are Mania Leszczyk (right) and her cousin, Cela Dauman (left), both of whom survived the war.

Date
1941
Locale
Czestochowa, [Katowice] Poland
Variant Locale
Chenstokhov
Tschenstochau
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (C)
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mary Kress

About This Photograph

Biography
Mania Leszczyk was born May 15, 1925. During the war she went into hiding with her mother, aunt, uncle and several others in a bunker in a small village. When they were denounced by a local farmer in March 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz. Mania survived confinement in Block 25, and on January 18, 1945 was put on a death march. She was liberated on May 8, 1945.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Mary Kress
 
Record last modified: 2004-01-06 00:00:00
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