Group portrait of Jewish and non-Jewish children on a school outing in Oswiecim, Poland.
Overview
- Caption
- Group portrait of Jewish and non-Jewish children on a school outing in Oswiecim, Poland.
According to the donor, the boys wearing round dark caps are from Orthodox Jewish homes; the ones with flat caps are from less religious Jewish homes; and the ones with the four-cornered caps and without head covering are not Jewish. The site of this outing was later Birkenau, part of the Auschwitz concentration camp. - Date
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1933
- Locale
- Oswiecim, [Krakow] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Auschwitz
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jacob Hennenberg
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Jacob HennenbergSource Record ID: Collections: 1992.56
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Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Jacob Hennenberg was born in 1924 in Oswiecim, Poland. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, he and his father fled eastward, but soon returned to Osweicim. In March 1941, following an order for Jews to leave town, Jacob and his father went to Chrzanow, where the Jewish community assigned them a room. On May 9, 1941, during a deportation action, soldiers came to their apartment to take Jacob's father. When Jacob pleaded to go in his stead, they agreed. Jacob was sent to the Bavarian village of Wiesau and imprisoned in the RAB Reichsautobahn lager (later the Zwangarbeitslager Wiesau), where the inmates were tasked to work on autobahn construction. He was sent to a number of other towns to work on sections of the highway before being sent to Klettendorf, where he remained until 1943. From Klettendorf Jacob was sent to camps in Freiberg and Waldenberg. He was finally liberated on May 9, 1945.
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- 2005-07-18 00:00:00
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