Portrait of Fryda Litwak, a young Jewish woman living in hiding in Poland.
Overview
- Caption
- Portrait of Fryda Litwak, a young Jewish woman living in hiding in Poland.
- Date
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1942
- Locale
- Bochnia, [Krakow] Poland ?
- Variant Locale
- Salzberg
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Sophie Turner-Zaretsky (Selma Schwarzwald)
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Sophie Turner-Zaretsky (Selma Schwarzwald)
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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RESCUERS & RESCUED -- Poland
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Fryda Litwak is the daughter of Josef and Mina Litwak. She was born in 1916 in Lvov, Poland, where her father owned a bank and managed his real estate holdings. Fryda had four siblings: Edek, Emanuel, Adela and Laura. After fleeing from the Lvov ghetto in September 1942, Fryda lived as a Pole in Bochnia under the alias Zofia Wolenska. For a time she worked for a Polish pharmacist, but when she sensed she might be revealed as a Jew, she volunteered for forced labor in Germany. In the summer of 1944 while working in a factory camp in Gelsenkirchen, she was killed during an Allied bombing raid.
- Record last modified:
- 2004-07-23 00:00:00
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- http://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa24214
