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Close-up portrait of a liberated Polish woman who was a leader of the Warsaw uprising.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 51068

Close-up portrait of a liberated Polish woman who was a leader of the Warsaw uprising.

Original Caption: "At the right in this picture is a 19-year-old Polish girl who was an officer in the Warsaw Resistance movement. During the last uprising in Warsaw, she was taken prisoner and put to work in a slave labor camp in Germany. At the left is a 52-year-old woman from Krim, Russia, who slaved for three years in a Nazi Buna synthetic rubber plant. Both were released with hundreds of their compatriots by troops of the 75th Divion, Ninth U.S. Army driving deep into the heart of Germany."

Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton
 
Record last modified: 2011-02-24 00:00:00
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