This is my aunt Jolanka Polackova, nee Bondyova, wearing a costume for a ball. Jews and non-Jews attended the balls together. This photo was taken in Holic in 1935. Aunt Jolanka was my mother’s sister. She was married and had a son called Janko. She perished in Auschwitz in 1942.
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".
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