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Group portrait of members of a Jewish boxing team at a displaced persons camp in Germany [probably Hofgeismar].

Photograph | Photograph Number: 44923
Group portrait of members of a Jewish boxing team at a displaced persons camp in Germany [probably Hofgeismar]. Standing third from the left is Majzesz Szczukowski. Pictured third from the right is Dov (Berl) Burko. He was born in Sarny, Poland in 1928. After the German invasion of areas previously under Soviet occupation, he and two siblings set out on a journey to Uzbekistan.

Group portrait of members of a Jewish boxing team at a displaced persons camp in Germany [probably Hofgeismar].

Standing third from the left is Majzesz Szczukowski. Pictured third from the right is Dov (Berl) Burko. He was born in Sarny, Poland in 1928. After the German invasion of areas previously under Soviet occupation, he and two siblings set out on a journey to Uzbekistan.

Date
Circa 1946 - 1947
Locale
Hofgeismar, [Kassel] Germany ?
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Hofgeismar
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hynda Szczukowski Halpren

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Biography
Hynda Halpren is the daughter of Majzesz Szczukowski (later Morris Kofsky). Majzesz was the son of Mendel and Hynda Szczukowski. He was born April 4, 1920 in Lodz, where his father worked as a shoemaker and butcher. Majzesz had eight siblings: Kyla, Frida, Abba,Toba, Herschel, Itcha, Morris and Esther. In November 1939, Majzesz married Hela Crackower in Bialystok. Following the outbreak of World War II, Majzesz fled to the Soviet sector of Poland. From 1939 to 1941 he was imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp. Subsequently, he was transferred to another camp in Zomin. When the war ended, Majzesz returned to Lodz, but soon moved on to Germany. For three years he lived in the Hofgeismar displaced persons camp near Kassel. In 1948 Majzesz immigrated to Canada. His parents and wife both perished during the war, as did five of his siblings. Only Itcha, Morris and Esther survived.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Hynda Szczukowski Halpren
 
Record last modified: 2022-03-14 00:00:00
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