Centropa

Support Centropa

You might get more results by selecting All languages
Other languages

Haya Lea Kats with Gisya Pishaleva

Report an issue

This is me with Gisya Pishaleva in 1937 in Rovno in a photo studio.

I received this picture quite recently from Israel. Gisya found it in the archives of her deceased sister. It was a shock for me to receive this photo after so many years.

In Rovno we lived poorly at first, but then my father's stock broking business began to be successful.

He was able to buy a series of houses for his family. Eventually we lived in a big house with twelve rooms not including the kitchens.
We lived on the second floor in a three-room apartment and leased the other floors out as apartments for additional income.

We lived in that house until 1941 when the Russians forced us to reduce our living space, leaving us with only one room.

Centropa Collection acquired by USHMM

The Centropa archive has been acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. 

USHMM will soon offer a Special Collections page for Centropa.

Academics please note: USHMM can provide you with original language word-for-word transcripts and high resolution photographs. All publications should be credited: "From the Centropa Collection at the United States Memorial Museum in Washington, DC". Please contact collection [at] centropa.org.