Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto

Singer sewing machine with wooden table top used by Smil Wagner, a tailor from Suceava, (S. Bukovina) Romania. In 1941-1942, Smil and the other Jews of his town were deported to the Shargorod (Sharhorod) ghetto in Romanian occupied Ukraine. Smil was allowed to bring his sewing machine. He made and repaired garments for the local Ukrainian population in exchange for food. Smil was able to leave the ghetto after the region was retaken by the Soviet Union in 1944. Smil Wagner was born October 26, 1909, in Suceava, (S. Bukovino), Romania, where he owned a tailor shop. Wagner was deported from Suceava during World War II and taken to Shargorod (Transnistria) and imprisoned in the ghetto. He brought his sewing machine with him and sewed and repaired garments for the local Ukrainian population in exchange for food. He had a son named Iosef (Joseph). Wagner died, age 82, in 1994. No restrictions on access