Rachel Krygier, a passenger on the ship the Exodus, peers out behind a blanket [probably in Haifa harbor].

Photograph | Photograph Number: 43587

Date: July 1947
Variant Locale: Israel
Photo Designation: JEWISH REFUGEES: IMMIGRATION TO PALESTINE/ISRAEL -- Refugee Ships (1945-1949) -- Exodus -- Arrival in Palestine -- Haifa/Transfer for Deportation
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Bernard Rosenthal

Biography: Rachel Gottlieb (born Rachel Krygier) is the sister-in-law of the donor. The daughter of Binyamin and Chaja Sheindel Krygier, she was born on February 10,1926 in Warsaw. Her older sister Sarah was born on December 24, 1922. They also had a brother Pesach and a sister Tola. Binyamin perished in the ghetto in 1941 at the age of 45. After his death, Chaja Sheindel encourage Rachel and Sarah to escape the ghetto and find farm work. The sisters managed to obtain false papers; Rachel went under the name of Marissa Duch, and Sara became Wasislawa Sieck. They eventually were arrested as Poles and sent to a German labor camp building rockets. Though the two sisters survived, Chaja Sheindel perished in concentration camp. Pesach perished at the age of 21 and Tola perished at the age of 19. After liberation, Rachel lived at Kibbutz Buchenwald before attempting to immigrate to Palestin on board the Exodus 1947.
Keyword: ALIYAH BET (ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION)
CLOSE-UPS
DPS (JEWISH)
EXODUS (HAIFA TRANSFER)
EXODUS PASSENGER
IMMIGRATION (TO PALESTINE/ISRAEL)
SHIPS (EXODUS)
WOMEN
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Bernard Rosenthal

Source Record ID: Collections: 2007.178.1
: Record last modified: 2015-05-04 00:00:00
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