Runa Mauer

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Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
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Scope & content: b&w with white border, studio portrait of Runa Mauer, from the shoulders up, who is looking off to the left side. She has her hair pulled up and is wearing a plain dark collard and buttoned up shirt. Narrative: Runa Maltin was born on July 6th, 1910 in Skalat, Tarnopol (Ukraine). Runa lived in Tarnopol until 1939 where she worked as a dressmaker. From 1939 to 1941, she worked as a farmer labourer. From November 1941 to January 1942 she was placed in the Ghetto in Tarnopol. She was arrested in September 1942 and sent to a concentration camp. Between 1942 and 1943 she was interned in concentration camps in Tarnopol, Beresovica and Jageljnica (Poland). On the 22nd of July, 1943, Runa fled from the concentration camp and until March of 1944 she lived in a forest. In March 1944, she was liberated by the Russian Red Army and returned to Tarnopol, where she continued working as a dressmaker. Runa was the only one out of her immediate family to survive the Holocaust. she immigrated to Canada with the help of an aunt and uncle in 1948.
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