A letter
1945
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
Part of the collection: Zuzanna Kofta's works inspired by stories of hiding Jews
The depiction in the distance, presumably, of a miller Dwoliński hiding Mira and her mother Adela Krum, fearful of being spotted by neighbours for various activities associated with hiding. The image was used as a montage interlude in Mira Ledowski-Krum's account. It illustrates the everyday reality of hiding in the mill in Beremiany: the necessity of taking a bucket-niche with waste from the hiding place every evening. Krum Dwoliński, who was hiding Mira and her mother Adela, went with the bucket to a privy shared by all the neighbours, which was located far from the houses, near the road, by the fence. As Mira Ledowski-Krum notes: , If any of the neighbours felt it, they would know that there were Jews there. Because the people living in those houses would go to that little house in any weather.
The story of hiding: https://sprawiedliwi.org.pl/en/stories-of-rescue/story-krzysztalowski-family
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cały obiekt: height: 21,2 cm, width: 30 cm
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painting
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painting
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paper
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POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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1945
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
2001
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
2000
Museum of the history of Polish Jews
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