
Yad Vashem Artifacts
Collection Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel


Yad Vashem Artifacts
Collection Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel


Yad Vashem Artifacts
Collection Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel

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Yad Vashem Artifacts
Collection Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel
Yad Vashem Artifacts
Collection Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel
Yad Vashem Artifacts
Collection Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel
During the Holocaust, most labor camp prisoners received a small ration of bread once a day, after which they would have to endure many long hours of extreme hunger before receiving another ration. Female inmates who managed to steal material and thread would sew themselves little pouches for safeguarding their daily bread ration and tie them around their necks. Possession of such a pouch enabled the division of the bread ration into small pieces that could then be eaten over the day without the risk of being stolen or lost.
Sima Wronski sewed herself a bread pouch while imprisoned in the Ravensbrück concentration camp.
Before the war, Sima lived in Warsaw with her husband, Mordechai Wronski. The couple was incarcerated in the Warsaw ghetto, and in 1943, Mordechai was murdered during one of the big Aktions in the ghetto. After losing her husband, Sima decided to try and escape, and obtained false papers in the name of Maria Widomska. She left the ghetto, but was caught and deported to the Flossenburg camp. After two years of forced labor, Sima was transferred to the Ravensbrück camp, where she was sent to work in the Siemens factory. While at Ravensbrück, she managed to obtain the materials for sewing a bread pouch, and smuggled out electrical wires from the factory that she wove into a belt.
Sima was liberated from the Ravensbrück camp and reached Sweden as a refugee. She immigrated to Eretz Israel (Mandatory Palestine) and married Sigmund Warschawski.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Rachel Abrahamov, Holon, Israel
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