NYPL, Letters To Sala

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Introduction Sala’s Europe, 1939-1945 Prewar Jewish Life and Deportation Nazi Slave Labor Camps The Judenrat Geppersdorf Nazi Postal System Ala Gertner Sala's Labor Camps Jewish Holidays Harry Haubenstock Schatzlar Liberation In America

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Photograph of Sala Garncarz, Sosnowiec, Poland, 1936
NYPL, Dorot Jewish Division, Sala Garncarz Kischner Collection

This is the earliest known image of Sala, the youngest of the 11 Garncarz children, taken when she was 12 years old. When she was deported to Geppersdorf in October 1940, Sala took this photograph and a few others from her childhood with her.