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Six chess pieces from the game that the Freiburg family took into hiding

After the German Nazis murdered the inhabitants of Monasterzyska and it was declared Judenrein (free of Jews),the few Jews who remained, among them Shoshana and Aryeh Freiburg and their eleven-year-old daughter Shulamit, were sent to the ghetto in Buczacz. The family managed to avoid capture in Aktion after Aktion by hiding in different places.

"I used to plan how I would survive… I imagined that if we were caught, I would stand in the middle, not on the edges and I'd hold my parents' hands and when I would see that they were shooting those near us I'd pull them down with me as if the bullets had hit us…"

From Shulamit Freiburg's testimony

Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.
Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.

Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.
Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.
Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.

Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.
Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.
Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.

Chess pieces that the Freiburg family took from home when they went into hiding.
Shulamit Freiburg (at the top, second from right), Czernowitz, 1945
Shulamit Freiburg (at the top, second from right), Czernowitz, 1945

Shulamit Freiburg (at the top, second from right), Czernowitz, 1945
Shulamit Freiburg with her parents Aryeh and Shoshana (right) en route to Israel, 1950
Shulamit Freiburg with her parents Aryeh and Shoshana (right) en route to Israel, 1950

Shulamit Freiburg with her parents Aryeh and Shoshana (right) en route to Israel, 1950