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Chaim Bajtner stands in the doorway of a wooden shed in Sosnowiec.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 23936
Chaim Bajtner stands in the doorway of a wooden shed in Sosnowiec.

Chaim Bajtner stands in the doorway of a wooden shed in Sosnowiec.

Date
1933 December 15
Locale
Sosnowiec, [Katowice; Zaglebie] Poland
Variant Locale
Sosnovets
Sosnowitz
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Economic Life/Daily Life
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Zev and Yehudit Malach

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Biography
Yehudit Malach (born Itka Feder) is the daughter of Abraham Yitzhak and Ester Rojza (Bajtner) Feder. She was born on June 6, 1919 in Dabrowa where her father had an alcohol concession. Itka had five older siblings: Mosze (b. 1913), Lejbl (b. 1914), Szrage (b. 1915), Rachel (b. 1916) and Yehiel (b. 1918). Szrage and Rachel immigrated to Palestine before the war. Yehiel survived the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps. Itka's father perished in the ghetto, and her mother in Auschwitz. Itka married Velvel Malach, the son of Zisha and Refael Hirsch Malach, and after the war immigrated to Israel.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Zev and Yehudit Malach
Source Record ID: Collections: 2004.169
 
Record last modified: 2015-04-21 00:00:00
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