- Tsvi C. Nussbaum
Tsvi C. Nussbaum (born 1935) is a
holocaust survivor, known as possibly being the boy in the Warsaw Ghetto photograph. Nussbaum's parents immigrated to what was Palestine in 1935. However, they found life too difficult there, and so returned in 1939 toSandomierz in Poland. Nussbaum's mother and father were murdered before the Jews of the region were sent to variousNazi concentration camps . Tsvi's brother disappeared, never to be seen again. Shortly thereafter Tsvi and his aunt moved toWarsaw and, posing asgentile s, lived there for over a year. When caught, they were deported to the death camp atBergen-Belsen .After 1945, Tsvi moved to Palestine (later to become
Israel ). After living in Israel for eight years, he moved to theUnited States . Initially, he did not speak English; but having a talent for science, he later studied medicine and became an otolaryngologist inNew York City .Two considerations count against Nussbaum being the boy in the photograph. First, Nussbaum was arrested at the
Hotel Polski , not in the ghetto as is pictured. Further, he was arrested onJuly 13 ,1943 , several months after the ghetto had been destroyed and the report, where the picture is to be found, delivered toHeinrich Himmler .ee also
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Further reading
*Richard Raskin. "A Child at Gunpoint. A Case Study in the Life of a Photo". Aarhus University Press, 2004. ISBN 87-7934-099-7
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* [http://www.auschwitz.dk/story/id2.htm Auschwitz.dk]
* [http://www.auschwitz.dk/Holocaust2.htm Auschwitz.dk] on the Holocaust
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