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Portrait of the donor's parents who married on the 30th of August 1939, the day before World War II broke out.

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    Portrait of the donor's parents who married on the 30th of August 1939, the day before World War II broke out.
    Portrait of the donor's parents who married on the 30th of August 1939, the day before World War II broke out.

Pictured are Eda and Salek Kuenstler.

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    Caption
    Portrait of the donor's parents who married on the 30th of August 1939, the day before World War II broke out.

    Pictured are Eda and Salek Kuenstler.
    Date
    Circa 1939
    Locale
    Krakow, [Krakow] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Krakau
    Cracow
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anita Kuenstler Epstein

    Rights & Restrictions

    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Anita Kuenstler Epstein
    Source Record ID: Collections: 2001.321.1

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    Biography
    Anita Epstein (born Anita Kuentsler) is the daughter of Salek and Eda Kuenstler. Her parents married in Krakow on August 30, 1939. Anita was born on November 18, 1942 in the Krakow ghetto. When she was three months old, her parents spirited her out of the ghetto, persuading a Catholic family named Zendler to hide her. The Zendlers, who had three children of their own, baptized Anita and raised her as a Catholic. Salek was killed in Mauthausen, but Eda survived two labor camps and incarceration in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen from which she was liberated in April 1945. After hospital treatment for typhus she returned to Krakow and found Anita. Eda and Anita went with other Jews to a displaced persons' camp in Selb, Germany near the Czechoslovakian border. They lived in Selb until 1949 and then came to the United States on a troop ship, the USS Taylor.
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