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A young couple poses on a bridge wearing armbands in Wadowice.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 74840
A young couple poses on a bridge wearing armbands in Wadowice.

A young couple poses on a bridge wearing armbands in Wadowice.

Date
1941
Locale
Wadowice, [Krakow] Poland
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (W)
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Henryk Glucksman

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Biography
Henryk Glucksman was born on June 30, 1923, in Wadowice, Poland. In April 1941 Henryk was deported to Gogolin labor camp in Poland where he was forced to build a highway ("Reichsautobahn"). Later he was transferred to Blechhammer, Gross Masselwitz, Gross Sarne, Brande, Graditz, Falbruck, and Langenbielau concentration and labor camps. In all the camps he was forced to work building and repairing highways and railroads. The Soviet Army liberated Henryk Glucksman on May 8, 1945.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Henryk Glucksman
Source Record ID: Collections: 1998.156.1
 
Record last modified: 2014-08-28 00:00:00
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