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Group portrait of orphans at the Sacred Heart convent. Gabi Koren is pictured running away from the group to the left.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 58191
Group portrait of orphans at the Sacred Heart convent. Gabi Koren is pictured running away from the group to the left. Also pictured are Jadzia Koalonski (front row, far left); Marysia [last name unknown] (back row, far left); Basia Friedman (back row, second from left, behind girl with white hat); Mania Rubin (back row, third from the left); Irka Lipinska (back row, fifth from the left); Jozka Kastyrko (back row, sixth from the left); Zosa Horn (middle row, girl in center with elbow bent): Julek Ostronski (middle row, fourth child from the right); and Sister Bernarda (back rown, second from the right). [See photocopy in binders.]

Group portrait of orphans at the Sacred Heart convent. Gabi Koren is pictured running away from the group to the left.

Also pictured are Jadzia Koalonski (front row, far left); Marysia [last name unknown] (back row, far left); Basia Friedman (back row, second from left, behind girl with white hat); Mania Rubin (back row, third from the left); Irka Lipinska (back row, fifth from the left); Jozka Kastyrko (back row, sixth from the left); Zosa Horn (middle row, girl in center with elbow bent): Julek Ostronski (middle row, fourth child from the right); and Sister Bernarda (back rown, second from the right). [See photocopy in binders.]

Date
1943 - 1945
Locale
Przemysl, [Rzeszow] Poland
Variant Locale
Peremyshl
Peremishl
Psemisel
Premisel
Photo Designation
RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Poland
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen

About This Photograph

Biography
Hedy Jadwiga Tugendhaft (now Hedy Rosen) is the daughter of Max and Mania Tugendhaft. She was born on September 27, 1936 in Krakow Poland where her father was an engineer. Much of her father's family had immigrated to Palestine in the late 1930s. In October 1939, one month after the German invasion of Poland, Max was arrested. His family never saw him again. He was eventually sent to Plaszow where he died. For three years, Mania and Hedy lived in the Krakow ghetto. During the liquidation of the ghetto in May 1943, Hedy hid in a wardrobe for three days. Then she and her mother managed to escape from the ghetto. Mania carried a false birth certificate, and the two wandered from village to village. When they arrived in Przemysl, Mania left Hedy at the doorstep of the Sacred Heart convent. The nuns took her in, and Hedy became the first child of an orphanage the nuns established. The nuns eventually hid thirteen Jewish children in the convent. In 1945 some of the children were transferred to a Jewish orphanage, but Hedy was too sick and instead was placed in another orphanage. Mania experienced some difficulties getting her out, but eventually succeeded and brought her with her to Budapest where she planned to join a transport to Palestine. However, Hedy had rheumatoid fever and was too sick to travel. Therefore, they instead went to Germany. In 1947 they sailed for Australia to join some maternal uncles, and three years later Mania and Hedy immigrated to Israel.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Artifact Photographer
Max Reid

Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen
Source Record ID: Collections: 2002.155.1
 
Record last modified: 2011-09-01 00:00:00
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