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Mr.
Joseph Scheinfeld recently gave Yad Vashem this photograph of his nieces
who were born in Hungary before the war. Following the German invasion of
Hungary, the two girls were sent to Auschwitz and perished there. The photograph was found by their father, Hananya Scheinfeld
after the war. On the back of
the photograph (see below left), he wrote just two words in Hungarian - “girls of
paper” - and the date, 23/9/1945. Hananya
Scheinfeld passed away, and there is no further information available
about the sisters, including
their names.
The
photograph and the faded words on the back, clearly written in a moment of
pain and despair, are the only tangible memory we have of these two young
girls, whose childhood was cut off in its prime.
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