Portrait of the Tenenbaum family taken on the eve of Estera's departure for the United States.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 28555

Date: 1936 September 19
Variant Locale: Zdunskaya Volya
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim

Biography: Esther Sonheim (born Estera Tenenbaum) is the daughter of Anka Leah (Manczyk) and Jonas Tenenbaum. She was born January 27, 1921, in Warsaw, where her father owned a grocery business. Estera had five siblings: Pinchas Mendel (b. 1910), Nechama (b. 1917), Srulik (b. 1919), Fajwel (b. 1925) and Szmuel (b. 1917). In 1936, following a visit by her Aunt Sara Keller from Chicago, the family decided to send Estera to live with her relatives in the United States. Estera traveled to Le Havre, France, in the fall of that year, and from there, sailed to New York, arriving at the end of October. Estera and her American relatives tried in vain to get the Tenebaum family out of Poland. During the war Estera sent numerous food packages to her brother Pinchas in Zdunska Wola and to her parents in the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, however, all the members of her family were deported and killed in Treblinka.
Keyword: FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH)
GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS (POLISH)
JEWS (RELIGIOUS)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim
: Record last modified: 2003-10-03 00:00:00
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