Portrait of Natalia Netka Putersznyt sent to her daughter who was in the Oberalstadt concentration camp.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of Natalia Netka Putersznyt sent to her daughter who was in the Oberalstadt concentration camp.
Zosia kept this photograph in her shoe while in the concentration camp. - Date
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1942 March 28
- Locale
- Dabrowa Gornicza, [Zaglebie; Katowice] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Dombrova
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Zosia Putersznyt Mortenfeld
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Zosia Putersznyt MortenfeldSource Record ID: Collections: 2005.283.1
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Zosia Mortenfeld (born Zosia Putersznyt) is the daughter of Berek and Natalia Putersznyt. She was born on September 10, 1925 in Dabrowa Gornicza where her father was a shoemaker. She had one older brother, Szlamek, who was born on January 18, 1923. Zosia remained in Dabrowa until December 1941. At that time she was deported to the Oberaltstadt concentration camp, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, where she remained for the next three years. As a punishment she was transferred for one year to Parschnitz, another sub-camp of Gross Rosen, and then returned to Oberaltstadt, where she was liberated by the Red Army on May 8, 1945 at the age of 19. After the war she went to the Reichenbach displaced persons camp, where she was reunited with her brother. Both of her parents were deported to their death in Auschwitz in August 1943. Zosia later married Moniek Mortenfeld, a survivor from Piotrkow Trybunalski.
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- 2007-07-05 00:00:00
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