Szyja Faktor, his wife Sala, and their daughter Frieda pose for a photograph while living in the Rivoli displaced persons (DP) camp in Italy, circa 1947–1948. During the war, Szyja, a Polish citizen, had briefly been held by the Germans. He escaped to the Soviet Union, where he stayed until 1945.
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