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Photograph of a Jewish Girl Who Disappeared During the War Years - Photograph of a girl named Hanna Demb, who disappeared during the war years. According to the inscription on the reverse, she was entrusted to a Czech family, and the photograph was used in an attempt to locate her in the village where she had been placed at the end of the war. According to the records of the Yad Vashem Museum, she was most likely murdered during the war years. According to the inscription on the reverse of the photograph, Hanna Demb was born to her parents, Klara (née Pesis) and Grisha. Her mother was a dentist in Rovno, and her father was a dental technician. Kvasyliv is a small industrial suburb located just south of the major district city of Rovno. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Volhynia region was occupied. In November 1941, the Nazis and their Ukrainian collaborators murdered approximately 23,000 of Rovno's Jews in the Sosonki Forest. The remaining Jews, including, in all likelihood, the Demb family, were confined to the Rovno Ghetto, which was finally liquidated in July 1942, when another approximately 5,000 Jews were murdered near Kostopol. At the end of the war, an attempt was made to locate their daughter Hanna, who had been entrusted to a Czech family as a hiding place. Nevertheless, Hanna most likely perished. Hanna Demb's name appears in the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names at the Yad Vashem Museum. According to the record there, Hanna Demb was born in Rivne, Poland, in 1931 to her parents, Gersh and Khaya (matching the inscription on the reverse of the photograph), and was most likely murdered. See record no. 6587475. 9x14 cm. Good condition.