Jacob Strich contracted a skin disease while incarcerated in the Lvov ghetto. Using the last of their money, his parents managed to buy him false papers and organize his transfer to a hospital in Warsaw. Jacob parted from his parents, travelled to Warsaw and was hospitalized for several months. After being released from hospital, he lived alternately alone on the streets of Warsaw and with his relatives who lived under an assumed identity outside the ghetto. Rolling cigarettes with a special tool, he sold them to kiosks and passersby. Jacob survived the war. His parents, Joseph and Bluma, were murdered.
Yad Vashem Artifacts Collection
Donated by Jacob Doron (Strich), Omer