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A group of Jewish men stand at the entrance to the mikve (ritual bath) in the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 04099
A group of Jewish men stand at the entrance to the mikve (ritual bath) in the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto. Among those pictured are: Leib Schwartz, Israel Weiss, Binem Jachimowicz, Moshe Chmielinitzky and Eliahu Bendermacher (the Jewish policeman in the background).

A group of Jewish men stand at the entrance to the mikve (ritual bath) in the Piotrkow Trybunalski ghetto.

Among those pictured are: Leib Schwartz, Israel Weiss, Binem Jachimowicz, Moshe Chmielinitzky and Eliahu Bendermacher (the Jewish policeman in the background).

Date
1942 May 15
Locale
Piotrkow Trybunalski, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale
Petrikau
Petrokov
Piotrkow
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MINOR) -- (P)
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Ben Jachimowicz James

About This Photograph

Biography
Ben James (born Binem Jachimowicz ) was born in Piotrkow Trybunalski. After living in the Piotrkow ghetto, Binem was sent to a series of concentration and labor camps, including Belzec, Hrubieszow, Czestochowa and Buchenwald. He survived the war.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Ben Jachimowicz James
Source Record ID: Registry 019715
 
Record last modified: 2001-09-13 00:00:00
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