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Photograph of Rosa Baruch

The black and white photograph shows a middle-aged woman standing on the porch of a market-place tenement house in Bojanowo. The building belonged to the merchant Isidor Schwersenski. The woman is covered up to her waist by a wall covering the porch. She is dressed in a dark dress with a decorative appliqué at left shoulder height. Her arms are crossed and placed on the windowsill. The short, wavy hair is combed to the left side. The woman smiles warmly. She has a cheerful, kind face, expressing contentment with life. Behind her back, there is a window with a partially lowered blind. To the left, a balcony door and stairs leading to the courtyard.

Rosa Baruch (née Kaskel) was born on 11 March 1878 in Bojanowo. She was the only daughter of the merchant and distiller Jacob and Hulda (née Schocken). On 16 March 1903, she married Albert Baruch, a merchant from Stęszew, in Bojanowo. She has lived in Stęszew and in Szczecin. During World War II she was taken to the Bełżyce ghetto and murdered there (APL, Civil Registry Office Records of Bojanowo, file no. 22, p. 60; file no. 123, pp. 24–25; https://yvng.yadvashem.org/nameDetails.html?language=en&itemId=11468964&ind=1, access: 18 March 2021).

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Information about the object
Author / creator
unknown
Object type
photography
Time of creation / dating
2nd quarter of the 20th century
Place of creation
Bojanowo (Wielkopolskie Province)
Technique
print
Material
paper
Keywords
Copyright status
the object is not protected by copyright law
Owner
Local Museum in Leszno
Identification number
MLI/IP/45