Sabina Heller collection

Identifier: irn522951
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522951

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Sabina Heller.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a dress and photograph relating to the experience of Sabina Heller as a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust.

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Photograph of Sabina Heller with one of her rescuers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517278
- English
- 1948
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The photograph depicts Sabina Heller holding up a stethoscope to Stanislava Roztropowicz in 1948 in Łódź, Poland.
Blue and white dress worn by a rescued hidden child
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517279
- English
- 1943-1948
- overall: Height: 13.130 inches (33.35 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Blue and white dress worn by Sabina Kagan as a child after she was saved from starvation by a Catholic family in Radziwillow, Poland (Radyvyliv, Ukraine). The dress was made for her by Natalia Roztropowicz from 2 doll's dresses. When Sabina was an infant, her parents, who were Jewish, paid to have her hidden by a Polish family. When her parents were murdered, the family abandoned her because they were no longer being paid. Sabina was discovered by a teenage girl who told the Roztropowicz family about her. Jozef and Natalia, and their three children, Janina, 18, Stanislawa (Stanka), 16, and ...

Sabina Heller collection

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Photograph of Sabina Heller with one of her rescuers

Blue and white dress worn by a rescued hidden child