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Jan Bodakowski chops wood at the Wildflecken displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 74828
Jan Bodakowski chops wood at the Wildflecken displaced persons camp.

Jan Bodakowski chops wood at the Wildflecken displaced persons camp.

Date
1948
Locale
Wildflecken, Germany
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Wildflecken
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Michael Bodakowski

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Biography
Jan (later John) Bodakowski was born in 1923, in Uhrynkowce, a village near Lvov. Shortly after the Germans invaded Poland, he was sent to a forced labor camp, where he worked transporting coal.
Helene Cenkar (later Bodakowski) was born in 1922, also near Lvov. During the war, she was sent to a forced labor camp. After the war, John and Helena married in the Schwarzenborn displaced persons camp, on June 6, 1946. By 1947, they were living in the Wildflecken displaced persons camp, where their son Joseph was born on June 1. The family left Germany for Brazil in 1948-49.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Michael Bodakowski
Source Record ID: Collections: 2014.389.1
 
Record last modified: 2014-05-14 00:00:00
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