Bumek and Gruber families photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Irena Wysoki
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Irena Wysoki in 2013.
Scope and Content
Photographs: wedding portrait of Abraham Bumek Gruber (donor's maternal uncle) and Bluma Gruber; portrait of their daughter Liba; and image of Bluma Gruber walking in the street of Drohobycz; Bumek Gruber was a butcher and he was employed by the Germans in the Karpaten Öl forced labor camp; his wife and small daughter were murdered in a mass execution in 1943 in Drohobycz; Bumek met Tusia, a seamstress who had a small daughter, and took care of them. He took them into hiding with him and paid the peasant hiding them with a ring with a glass stone. When the peasant wanted to sell the ring to buy a cow, Bumek convinced him not to do it because of the ring's sentimental value, and bought the peasant a cow after the war.
Subjects
- Jews--Ukraine--Drohobych.
- Drohobych (Ukraine)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document