Prewar photograph of David Tennenbaum riding a light-colored pony. Lwów, Poland, 1936.
David (Dawid) Tennenbaum was born in Lwów, Poland, in 1931. After Nazi Germany occupied Lwów in summer 1941, German authorities eventually imprisoned David and his family in the Lwów ghetto. David and his mother escaped and went into hiding. During that time, a friend secured false papers for them under the names Franciszka and Teresa Wieczorkowska. David grew his hair long and passed as a girl until their liberation in 1944.
We would like to thank Crown Family Philanthropies, Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation, the Claims Conference, EVZ, and BMF for supporting the ongoing work to create content and resources for the Holocaust Encyclopedia. View the list of donor acknowledgement.
