Portrait of Ester Fiks (Julcia), a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement, who lived on false papers and served as a courier in the Jewish underground.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 17913

Overview

Caption: Portrait of Ester Fiks (Julcia), a member of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth movement, who lived on false papers and served as a courier in the Jewish underground.

The Polish inscription on the back of the photograph reads, "During our underground life/ From our times of misfortune/ To my dearest friend/ Jula 1944".

Julcia met Lodzia Hamersztajn in 1943 while they were both living on false papers in Krakow and working for the Germans. They stayed together until the liberation. Julcia had a younger brother, Benzion, known as Bolus, who survived the war on the Aryan side of Warsaw as one of the cigarette sellers in Three Crosses Square. Julcia and her brother immigrated to Palestine in 1946.
Date: 1944
Locale: Warsaw, Poland
Variant Locale: Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Leah Hammerstein Silverstein

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Leah Hammerstein Silverstein

Keyword: CLOSE-UPS COURIERS GHETTO/OCCUPATION JEWS (POLISH) JEWS IN HIDING (WARTIME) RESISTERS/RESISTANCE WARSAW WOMEN ZIONIST GROUPS (HASHOMER HATZAIR) ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
Photo Designation: RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Poland