Teenage boys from a Maccabi club practice gymnastics.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 74861

Date: 1936 June 17
Locale: Wadowice, [Krakow] Poland ?
Photo Designation: LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Sports/Summer Camps
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Henryk Glucksman

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.
Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS)
CHILDREN/YOUTH
JEWS
MACCABI
SPORTS (GYMNASTICS)
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
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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