Dark blue cardboard case with the number the"719" printed inside.
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Gina Tabaczynska (later Eugenia Shrut) was born on May 20, 1925, in Klodawa, Poland. She was the youngest child of Naftali, a grain merchant, and Rozalia Szczecinska Tabaczynska. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. In November 1940, the Tabaczynski family fled Klodawa because of the anti-Jewish persecution. They were later forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Gina, her parents, and her brother, Pawel, along with his wife, Bela, worked in the business office of the Schultz Firma which protected them from deportation through the spring of 1943. In April 1943, when the Germans began to liquidate the ghetto, the residents launched an armed revolt against the German occupiers. The Ghetto Uprising ended on May 16. Gina was the only member of her family to survive.
The tag was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by Eugenia Shrut.
overall: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
Identification tag 7190 issued in summer 1942 to Gina Tabaczynska whil a forced laborer of the Schultz Firma in the Warsaw Ghetto. The tag was supposed to protect the owner from deportation. In November 1940, the Tabaczynski family fled Klodawa, Poland, because of the anti-Jewish persecution of the German occupaton authorities. They were later forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Gina, her parents, her brother, Pawel, and his wife, Bela, worked in the business office of the Schultz Firma which protected them from deportation through the spring of 1943. In April 1943, when the Germans began to liquidate the ghetto, the residents launched an armed revolt against the German occupiers. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ended on May 16. Gina was the only member of her family to survive.
Identification tag issued to a forced laborer in the Warsaw ghetto