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Sylvia Kramarski Kolski, on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66135
Sylvia Kramarski Kolski, on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto. She was 21 years old at the time. Mrs. Kolski kept all of her pre-war and wartime photos in a cloth pouch around her neck after her mother appeared to her in a dream telling her to do so. She was thus able to preserve them throughout the two year period she was in hiding.

Sylvia Kramarski Kolski, on the streets of the Warsaw ghetto.

She was 21 years old at the time. Mrs. Kolski kept all of her pre-war and wartime photos in a cloth pouch around her neck after her mother appeared to her in a dream telling her to do so. She was thus able to preserve them throughout the two year period she was in hiding.

Date
1941
Locale
Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale
Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- WARSAW (Poland) -- Daily Life/Street Scenes -- Street Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sylvia Kramarski Kolski

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Sylvia Kramarski Kolski
Source Record ID: Collections: 1990.93.16
 
Record last modified: 2015-03-17 00:00:00
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