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About the artifacts
After Nazis and their collaborators murdered her father, Selma Schwarzwald (pictured in center photo and at upper right) and her mother fled the Lvov ghetto in Poland to begin new lives passing as Polish Catholics with new names. After the war, Selma no longer even remembered her Jewish identity. When her mother finally told her she was Jewish, Sophie began a long, personal journey to reexamine her past, including the teddy bear she name “Refugee,” a gift from her mother… and a symbol of their shared survival.
Credits: Objects donated to the Museum by Sophie Turner-Zaretsky (born Selma Schwarzwald) include photos from her First Communion, a letter she wrote to Santa, and the bear she named “Refugee.”
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