Photograph of Anita Epstein while living the Zendlers (1943-1945), a Polish-Catholic family that hid her during the war
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Anita Epstein while in hiding with the a Polish Catholic family

A photograph of a young Anita Epstein (née Künstler), who was born to Jewish parents in the Kraków ghetto in 1942. This photograph was taken while she was in hiding with a Catholic family in German-occupied Poland during World War II (circa 1943–1945). 


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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Anita Epstein
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