Polche Percys

Not on view

Mediumblack and white photo

Dimensions5 1/4 x 3 1/4 in.

ClassificationsPhotograph

Credit LineGift of Sylvia Fagen

Object number691.90

Object DescriptionPosed photo of woman seated on wooden bench with what is likely a photo album or book laying open upon her lap. Polche was daughter of Charna and Chaim Percys.

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NotesPolche Percys was later most likely Pearl Besser. She married Newte (Neute) Besser. Died in the Holocaust. They are mostly unidentified, mostly from Zawiercie, Poland, family members and friends of the Feijgenblat (changed to Fagen) family and the related by marriage Besser family. Jacob Feigenblatt ran away from Poland to Germany to escape serving in the Polish army, and married in Germany, returning to Poland in 1921 or earlier; this may account for the German photos.

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