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Photograph of Józef Hochsinger

Immediately after liberation, Józef Hochsinger registered with the Warsaw Provincial Jewish Committee (Archive of the Jewish Historical Institute, ref. 303/V/427/11520). He stated there that he had survived the war in Warsaw, first in the ghetto, then "as an Aryan". After the war he lived, under the occupation name Józef Moszczyński, in Praga, at Flat 25, 45 Białostocka Street. In 1946. Hochsinger and his wife Dorota (Dusia) left the country. In one of her letters Natalia wrote to Anna: "Józiek left Poland and left me all the equipment and even a piano for Zosia" (The letter from Natalia Zajczyk to Anna Zimmermann, MPOLIN-A31.2.15. He settled in the United States. In 1956, he sent his sister Anna Zimmermann his photograph bearing the dedication: "To my beloved Anka / Józiek". He wrote the date on the photograph taken on a warm summer's day, already in American style: 24-8-56 (24 August 1956). Probably Yonkers, a city on the Hudson River located in the New York metropolitan area, where this photo was taken became his new home. See also other portrait photographs of Józef Hochsinger: MPOLIN-A31.3.8, MPOLIN-A31.3.22, MPOLIN-A31.3.24. | Renata Piątkowska

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Information about the object
Object type
photography
Time of creation / dating
1956-08-24
Created place
Yonkers (United States)
Technique
black-and-white photograph
drawn
Material
photographic print paper
ink
Keywords
Copyrights status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Identification number
MPOLIN-A31.3.15