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Four Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 61766
Four Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow. Pictured from left to right are Ignatz Kurek and Jankl Moshe Gornicki. Gornicki perished in Riga.

Four Jewish youth pose outside a barracks in the Sdroin labor camp near Ozorkow.

Pictured from left to right are Ignatz Kurek and Jankl Moshe Gornicki. Gornicki perished in Riga.

Date
1942 - 1943
Locale
Sdroin, [Lodz] Poland
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (O)
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Irving Kurek

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Biography
Ignatz (later Irving) Kurek was born in 1923 in Ozorkow, Poland (near Lodz). He was sent to the Sdroin labor camp, where the prisoners were tasked with constructing a new highway. From Sdroin, Ignatz was sent to Palemonas in Lithuania, Kaiserwald in Latvia, and then to Buchenwald and Stutthof. He was liberated from Theresienstadt in May 1945.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Irving Kurek
 
Record last modified: 2004-04-27 00:00:00
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