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Marychna (Miriam) Kominkowska stands in front of a Polish ice-cream parlor.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 63920
Marychna (Miriam) Kominkowska stands in front of a Polish ice-cream parlor.

Marychna (Miriam) Kominkowska stands in front of a Polish ice-cream parlor.

Date
1936
Locale
Poland
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Miriam Kominkowska Greenstein

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Biography
Marychna (Miriam) Kominkowska (now Greenstein) was born in Sompolno, Poland. Before the war she lived in Radziejow, Alexandrow, and Lubraniec. After the German occupation, she was sent to the Lodz ghetto. From there she was deported to Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Magdeburg, and returned to Bergen-Belsen. After her liberation, she was was sent by the International Red Cross to Sweden in order to recuperate.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Miriam Kominkowska Greenstein
 
Record last modified: 2012-02-01 00:00:00
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