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A Jewish woman walks down the street, hand in hand with her young son.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 61119
A Jewish woman walks down the street, hand in hand with her young son. Pictured are Berte Akerman and Moshe Tomas.

A Jewish woman walks down the street, hand in hand with her young son.

Pictured are Berte Akerman and Moshe Tomas.

Date
Circa 1945 - 1946
Locale
Prague, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale
Praha
Czech Republic
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- Bricha/Emigration -- Fleeing to the West -- Czechoslovakia -- Prague
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Berte Akerman

About This Photograph

Biography
Berte Akerman is the daughter of Moshe Weiss and Regina (nee Stern) Weiss. She was born in Nizni Verecky, Czechoslovakia on February 14, 1919. Her father, who owned a shoe store, passed away from natural causes in 1922. In 1941 Berte was taken from her town and sent to the provinces with her family. Her son Moshe Tomas was born in either 1941 or 1942. Then they were deported to the Kamieniec Podolski ghetto in the Ukraine. They managed to escape to Budapest where her husband and his brother were shot. Berte, who was pregnant, returned to Verecky in 1943 so her mother could assist her with her childbirth. After she gave birth, she left her newborn son, Itzhak, with her mother, and she and Moshe went into hiding on false papers. They lived with a Christian who was unaware they were Jewish. In 1944, Regina and Itzhak were deported to Auschwitz where they were killed. Regina was 54 years old, and Itzhak was only one year old.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Berte Akerman
 
Record last modified: 2007-01-25 00:00:00
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