
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Courtesy of Ahuva (Ostereicher) Sherwood, Jerusalem, Israel



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Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Courtesy of Ahuva (Ostereicher) Sherwood, Jerusalem, Israel
Ahuva (Ostereicher) Sherwood was born in the village of Strabicovo, Czechoslovaki in 1929. She was deported to Auschwitz together with her family. In spite of the family's hope to stay together, Ahuva was pulled away from her mother and the younger children by a Polish prisoner and attached to a labor unit of young women. They were sent to a labor camp where they worked in a telecommunications equipment factory. After liberation, the women were transferred to an adjacent camp that was used as a POW camp during the war. There, they found sheets that they used to make clothes. Ahuva sewed a blouse from checked material, and kept it for many years, until donating it to the Artifacts Collection at Yad Vashem.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Courtesy of Ahuva (Ostereicher) Sherwood, Jerusalem, Israel
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