Portrait of two Jewish girls dressed in traditional Macedonian costume in a private home in Bitola, Macedonia.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of two Jewish girls dressed in traditional Macedonian costume in a private home in Bitola, Macedonia.
Pictured are Matilda Kamchi (or Camhi, left) and a friend. Both perished in Treblinka. - Date
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1937
- Locale
- Bitola, [Macedonia; Bitolj] Yugoslavia
- Variant Locale
- Monastir
Bitolia
Bitol - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Rebecca Camhi Fromer
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Rebecca Camhi Fromer
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Isak Kamchi was the son of Mushon and Rebeka (Albocher) Kamchi. He was born in Bitola, Macedonia. Several of his siblings and cousins left Macedonia for Palestine and North America before the war. During World War II Isak served as the leader of a partisan unit operating in Croatia. He established a safehouse at his parent's home in Zagreb where partisans could rest and recuperate. His mother ran the safehouse, cooking for the men and nursing them back to health. When the Germans discovered the safehouse, they offered Isak protection in exchange for his surrender. However, when he did surrender, he was arrested and later killed. He may have been publicly hanged.
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- 2003-10-03 00:00:00
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