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About the artifacts
Upon the liquidation of the Sieciany ghetto in Poland, Niusia Gordon went into hiding, taking with her a few precious family items, photos, and documents…including her younger bother Boruch’s prized violin. Trapped in the ghetto, Niusia’s parents and two brothers were later murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators. Niusia’s younger sister Rywa survived the concentration camps, and the girls were reunited after the war. This child’s violin symbolizes a lost, but never forgotten, Holocaust family.
Credits: Niusia Gordon’s false papers; her parents’ marriage registration; photos kept in hiding (the photo at center shows Rywa and her husband, Izak Wertman); postwar photos; three postcards sent to Niusia by her mother, Basia, from the Vilna ghetto; and the violin of Boruch Gordon, who was murdered in 1943 by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Ponary forest near Vilna, Lithuania. USHMM, gift of Regina Gordon and Anna Nodel.
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