Tsvi C. Nussbaum
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Tsvi C. Nussbaum (born 1935) is a holocaust survivor, known as possibly being the boy in a famous photograph of the Warsaw Ghetto.[1]
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[edit] Early life
Nussbaum's parents immigrated to Palestine in 1935. However, they found life too difficult there, and so returned in 1939 to Sandomierz in Poland. Nussbaum's mother and father were murdered before the Jews of the region were sent to various German Nazi concentration camps. Tsvi's brother disappeared, never to be seen again. Shortly thereafter Tsvi and his aunt moved to Warsaw and, posing as gentiles, lived there for over a year. When caught, they were deported to the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen.
[edit] Survival
After 1945, Tsvi moved to Palestine. After living in Israel for eight years, he moved to the United States. Initially, he did not speak English; but having a talent for science, he later studied medicine and became an otolaryngologist in New York City.
[edit] Identity dispute
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 on July 13, 1943, several months after the ghetto had been destroyed and the report, where the picture is to be found, delivered to Heinrich Himmler.
[edit] References
- ^ Margolick, David (20 June 1982). "Haunting photo of Nazi victim stirs debate". Chicago Tribune. p. B1. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/628395352.html?dids=628395352:628395352&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+20,+1982&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=Haunting+photo+of+Nazi+victim+stirs+debate&pqatl=google. Retrieved 26 September 2010.
[edit] See also
[edit] 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
- Frédéric Rousseau. L'Enfant juif de Varsovie. Histoire d'une photographie Le Seuil, 2009
- Dan Porat. The Boy. A Holocaust Story. Hill and Wang, 2010. ISBN 0809030713
[edit] External links
- Yahoo! Movies
- Auschwitz.dk on Nußbaum
- Auschwitz.dk
- Auschwitz.dk on the Holocaust
- The Stroop Report on Wikimedia Commons
- http://www.auschwitz.dk/Star/Nussbaum.htm
