Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland
Extent and Medium
oversize box
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Douglas Smith
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Douglas Smith.
Scope and Content
Consists of one brown photograph album depicting life in an unknown refugee home for children in Switzerland, circa 1945-1947. The album documents their education and recreational activities, as well as the preparations, ceremony, and departure of members of the group for Palestine. One of the pages includes a small leather badge with Hebrew lettering.
Subjects
- Children--Institutional care--Switzerland.
- Emigration and immigration--Israel--1940-1950.
- Switzerland.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.