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Memorial in the Moidowa Street Cemetery to eighteen Jews who were murdered by Polish nationalists in Nowy Targ in April and May 1945.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 66208
Memorial in the Moidowa Street Cemetery to eighteen Jews who were murdered by Polish nationalists in Nowy Targ in April and May 1945. Among those killed were Abraham and Devorah Wygoda, the donor's parents.

Memorial in the Moidowa Street Cemetery to eighteen Jews who were murdered by Polish nationalists in Nowy Targ in April and May 1945.

Among those killed were Abraham and Devorah Wygoda, the donor's parents.

Date
After 1945 May 02
Locale
Krakow, [Krakow] Poland
Variant Locale
Krakau
Cracow
Photo Designation
BEARING WITNESS -- Memorials/Grave Stones
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mark Webber

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Event History
In late spring 1945, members of Gordonia secretly departed from Krakow for Czechoslovakia in the hope of reaching Palestine. They traveled some sixty kilometers to the town of Nowy Targ where they were met by members of an antisemitic Polish group, the N.S.Z. Five survivors murdered on April 20, 1945 and an additional thirteen were murdered on May 2, 1945. Upon hearing the news, other members of Gordonia retrieved their bodies and brought them back to Krakow. There they erected a memorial in their honor in the Jewish cemetery of Krakow.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005466.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Mark Webber
 
Record last modified: 2021-06-22 00:00:00
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