Friedman's cousins Tosia and Gerd, Krakow, ca 1937.

ID: 157 ~ Source: Norbert Friedman ~ Date: 1937
This file appears in: Outbreak of War
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Gerd is one of the cousins with whom Friedman fled east at the start of World War II.

ID: Two children facing the camera. One is wearing a coat and sitting down, and the other is behind and leaning with their head on the sitting one’s shoulder.

This file appears in: Outbreak of War

By Norbert Friedman
"When the war broke out, I was... working in Krakow living with my aunt. And on September 1st, the German Stuka planes, the fighter planes, bombed a Polish barracks, army barracks, across the street from where I was staying with my aunt. That’s…