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Portrait of Katrina Horniak (nee Tatjana Melnik).

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    Portrait of Katrina Horniak (nee Tatjana Melnik).
    Portrait of Katrina Horniak (nee Tatjana Melnik).

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    Portrait of Katrina Horniak (nee Tatjana Melnik).
    Date
    Circa 1935
    Locale
    USSR
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of John Horniak

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    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: John Horniak

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    Biography
    Tatjana Melnik (later Katrina Horniak) was born in Russia on January 13, 1907. She married Iwan Horniak, and they had a son, John Adolph. During WWII, Katrina was imprisoned in Ravensbrueck and given the prisoner number 56937. Later, she was transferred to Dresden, a subcamp of Flossenbuerg, where she died on November 23, 1944. During her imprisonment, Iwan and John were able to flee occupied Europe. They survived the war and immigrated to the United States.
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