Overview
- Date
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1942 - 1943
- Locale
- Sdroin, [Lodz] Poland
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Irving Kurek
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Irving Kurek
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BARRACKS CLOSE-UPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS GROUP PORTRAITS JEWS (POLISH) LABOR CAMPS OZORKOW SDROIN
- Photo Designation
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GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (O)
Administrative Notes
- 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.
- Record last modified:
- 2004-04-27 00:00:00
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