. "Embroidered doily with crocheted trim recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowksi home. It was likely embroidered by her younger sister Sonia, 13, who was killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, which was occupied by German troops in June 1941. In August 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, the residents were ordered to the village center. Masza, then 14, and her two older sisters, Lea, 20, and Frieda, 18, ran away, but were captured. As they were being taken back, Masza somehow found herself alone. She ran to the secret hiding place in her home, and heard shots and screams from the square. When it got quiet a few days later, she escaped to the nearby forest. She found a partisan group but they would not let her stay with them. She joined with another lone girl, Inka, and for 2.5 years they hid in the forest. At some point, she encountered her father who had escaped another ghetto. A while later, they found her mother and she learned that Sonia had been killed. The Soviet Army liberated the region in summer 1944. After they returned to the village, Masza, accompanied by a Soviet Jewish soldier, went to the house of a non-Jewish neighbor. She saw the embroidered doilies and took them. After the war ended in May 1945, Masza and her parents left illegally for Łódź, Poland."@eng . "approximately 1944 September" . "overall: Height: 14.125 inches (35.878 cm) | Width: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm)"@eng . "Doily with a gray and red cross stitched couple with flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl"@eng . . . . "Doily with a gray and red cross stitched couple with flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl"@eng . .