Portrait of the Tenenbaum family taken on the eve of Estera's departure for the United States.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of the Tenenbaum family taken on the eve of Estera's departure for the United States.
Pictured in the first row, from left to right are: Fajwel; Anka Leah; Jonas and Szmuel. In the second row are: Nechama; Estera and Srulik. The oldest brother is not pictured because he lived in Zdunska Wola with his family. - Date
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1936 September 19
- Locale
- Warsaw, Poland
- Variant Locale
- Warszawa
Varshava
Warschau - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Esther Tenenbaum Sonheim
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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.
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- 2010-07-16 00:00:00
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