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...A Birthday Gift On January 27, 2000, Todd Singer of Tulsa, Oklahoma, purchased a Nazi-generated wartime medical personnel questionnaire ...
...as a birthday gift for his wife. One of many official forms called a Fragebogen, the document was used by German authorities during World War II to gather personal data for the purpose of issuing work permits in occupied Poland. Pictured on this document is a slight, frail-looking Jewish woman. Singer did not know the yellowed, four-page questionnaire would set into motion a research effort involving himself, his friends, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to reconstruct the life and death of the woman described and depicted on the artifact. |
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According to the document, Frey’s last place of residence was the disease-infested ghetto of Lvov (today L’viv), in German-occupied Poland, the starting point for the historical investigation.
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A birthday gift:
woman and doctor Dr. Lucja Frey: Renowned scientist and researcher into a medical condition that bears her name > The occupation of Lvov, Frey’s hometown: The arrest and disappearance of Lucja's husband under Soviet occupation after World War II began; plunder, brutality, pogroms, isolation, ghettoization following the German invasion > A physician in the ghetto: Overcrowded living conditions, conscription for labor, rampant infectious disease, deportations to Belzec > The fate of Lucja Frey Gottesman: Only a small number were spared... > Epilogue: A window into a forgotten life > |