Jewish survivors in Czestochowa march along Spadkowa-Kozia Street in protest against the way Jewish victims of German actions in the small ghetto were buried in mass graves filled with lime.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 15854

Overview

Caption: Jewish survivors in Czestochowa march along Spadkowa-Kozia Street in protest against the way Jewish victims of German actions in the small ghetto were buried in mass graves filled with lime.

Hela and Jack Shipper are pictured in the foreground in the center. As a result of the protest, the bodies were exhumed and buried in the Jewish cemetery in Czestochowa. Among the victims were the donor's brother, Leib Shipper, his sister, Yentel (Shipper) Owieczko, and her daughter, Hela.
Date: January 1945
Locale: Czestochowa, [Katowice] Poland
Variant Locale: Chenstokhov
Tschenstochau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jack Shipper

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Jack Shipper

Keyword: DEMONSTRATIONS DPS (JEWISH) FLAGS FLAGS (POLISH) JEWS (POLISH) MARCHING SIGNS/BANNERS/POSTERS SURVIVORS WREATHS
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Poland