us-005578-irn49856
type: RecordSet
archival history: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
has or had holder: us-005578
has or had identifier: 1
has or had some members with language: pol
has or had subject: 701
has record set type: Item
identifier: irn49856
record resource extent: folder 1
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scope and content: Photographs: wedding portrait of Abraham Bumek Gruber (donor's maternal uncle) and Bluma Gruber; portrait of their daughter Liba; and image of Bluma Gruber walking in the street of Drohobycz; Bumek Gruber was a butcher and he was employed by the Germans in the Karpaten Öl forced labor camp; his wife and small daughter were murdered in a mass execution in 1943 in Drohobycz; Bumek met Tusia, a seamstress who had a small daughter, and took care of them. He took them into hiding with him and paid the peasant hiding them with a ring with a glass stone. When the peasant wanted to sell the ring to buy a cow, Bumek convinced him not to do it because of the ring's sentimental value, and bought the peasant a cow after the war.
title: Bumek and Gruber families photograph collection