Group portrait of Polish Jews and non-Jews traveling from Warsaw via Gdynia and Le Havre to the United States.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 28563

Date: 1936 October 23
Locale: Gdynia, [Gdansk] Poland
Variant Locale: Gdingen
Gotenhafen
Photo Designation: JEWISH REFUGEES: SEARCH FOR SAFE HAVENS (1933-1945) -- Emigration/Refugee Assistance -- In Poland -- General
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: DEPARTURES
EMIGRES/EMIGRATION/AID (PREWAR/WARTIME)
GROUP PORTRAITS
JEWS (POLISH)
POLES
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim
: Record last modified: 2010-07-16 00:00:00
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