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Postwar portrait of Piotr Kolenda.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 60237
Postwar portrait of Piotr Kolenda. He was a landowner from Nowogrodek who knew both the Dzienciolski and Bielski families before the war. During the war he helped hide the women before they could safely go to the forest and continued to assist members of the Bielski group while they were in the forest.

Postwar portrait of Piotr Kolenda.

He was a landowner from Nowogrodek who knew both the Dzienciolski and Bielski families before the war. During the war he helped hide the women before they could safely go to the forest and continued to assist members of the Bielski group while they were in the forest.

Locale
Nowogrodek, [Belarus; Baranovichi] Poland
Variant Locale
Novohorodek
Nowogrudok
Belarus
Photo Designation
RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Poland
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Larry Rosenbach

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Biography
Sonia Rosenbach (born Sonia Dzienciolski) was the daughter of Szlomo and Michla Dzienciolski. She was born on November 15, 1935 in Nowogrodek where her father had a flour mill. She had a younger sister Bella (born 1939). The family were neighbors of the Bielskis, and several members of the two families were married to each other. When the Bielskis went into the forest, they were among the first to join them. Sonia lived in the forest between the ages of five and eight. After the war the family came to Foehrewald where a third daughter, Trudi Gittla was born in 1945. They then immigrated to the United States in 1955. In 1958 she married Lajziu (Larry) Rosenbach.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Larry Rosenbach
 
Record last modified: 2003-06-11 00:00:00
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