Holocaust: A Photograph of a Jewish Child in Hiding Among a Group of Polish Children Dressed Up for Their First Communion

Photograph from the Eve Nisencwajg Bergstein Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.

A Jewish child in hiding stands among a group of Polish children dressed up for their First Communion.

Pictured fifth from the left is Eve Nisencwajg (b.1936), a Jewish child from Staszow, Poland, who was placed in the home of Stanislaw and Wiktona Szumielewicz 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. (Circa 1943)