The Fake Diamond Ring That Helped Save Three Lives

When German soldiers broke a chandelier in the Drohobycz ghetto, Abraham “Bumek” Gruber took some of the broken pieces and asked a jeweler to make him a ring. Bumek was later able to use the fake diamond ring to ensure his survival as well as the survival of two other Jews, a mother and her daughter, when they escaped from the ghetto.

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• Memory Project—Hiding
• Memory Project—The Diamond and the Cow
• Holocaust Encyclopedia—Rescue
• Bibliography—Rescuers