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Portrait of thirteen-year-old Bernard Mayer in the Drohobycz ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 14244
Portrait of thirteen-year-old Bernard Mayer in the Drohobycz ghetto.

Portrait of thirteen-year-old Bernard Mayer in the Drohobycz ghetto.

Date
November 1941
Locale
Drohobycz, [Ukraine; Drohobycz] Poland
Variant Locale
Drogobych
Ukraine
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (D)
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bernard Mayer

About This Photograph

Biography
Bernard Mayer is the son of Isaac and Tonia Mayer. He was born February 2, 1928 in Drohobycz, Poland. He had three siblings: Szymon (b. 1910), Klara (b. 1912) and Jacob (b. 1914). His father died before the German occupation. Bernard survived the war with his mother hiding in the basement of a house owned by a Ukrainian named Ivan Bur. While Bernard's brother, Jacob, also survived, his oldest brother, Szymon, was killed with his wife and children in Belzec, and his sister Klara, was shot while hiding in the Bronica Forest. After the war Bernard lived in Poland until July 1946. He then left for Paris, where he remained until immigrating to the U.S. in 1947.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Bernard Mayer
Source Record ID: Registry 028731
 
Record last modified: 2004-01-06 00:00:00
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