Strive for precision of language
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| A Jewish child in hiding
stands among a group of Polish children dressed up for their First Communion (#09298) |
Date:
Circa 1943 |
| Photo credit: Eve Nisencwajg
Bergstein Collection, courtesy of USHMM |
| Photographer: No photographer recorded |
Photo description
Pictured fifth from the left is Eve Nisencwajp (b. 1936), a Jewish child from Staszow, Poland, who was placed in the home of Stanislaw and Wiktona Szumielewica in 1941. For the duration of the war, Eve posed as their orphaned niece. In 1946 members of the Jewish brigade removed her to a Jewish orphanage in Krakow. Soon after, Eve was taken to a children’s home in France, where she remained until emigrating to Canada in 1947.
Relationship to guideline
Teachers should emphasize that words describing human behavior often have multiple meanings. Although resistance often refers to a physical act of armed revolt, resistance also embraced willful disobedience, in this case the
hiding of a Jewish child in defiance of the Nazi regulations.