Moniek Spiro (now Marc Spiro) stands on a dirt lane in Stowiki (Slowiki), Poland near Kielce.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 99132

Date: 1938 October 19
Locale: [Kielce] Poland
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town

Biography: Moniek Spiro was born in Kielce, Poland. Some time after 1941, he was forced to move into the Kielce ghetto. After the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943, he was sent to forced labor in the Huta Ludwikow, Polish factory confiscated by the Nazis and turned into a repair workshop for the Wehrmacht. He was later sent to Auschwitz, Buna, Dora Mittelbau, Nordhausen, and Bergen Belsen. He survived the war, and immigrated to the United States.
Keyword: BICYCLES
CLOSE-UPS
JEWS (POLISH)
STREET SCENES
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Marc Spiro
: Record last modified: 2015-05-19 00:00:00
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