Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld collection

Identifier: irn35078
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts and photographs relating to the experiences of Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld in the Vilna ghtto and Poland before, during, and after the Holocaust.

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Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn35858
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains three photographic prints: one of Joseph Lichtenfeld (donor's husband) in the uniform of Anders Army, and two photos of the donor's rescuers after World War II.
Sheepskin vest worn by a Jewish girl living in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn35859
- English
- 1939-1944
- overall: Height: 25.750 inches (65.405 cm) | Width: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Vest worn by 11 year old Rivka Chwoles while imprisoned in the Vilnius ghetto and while living in hiding after her escape. She removed the sleeves to make it a vest. Her father gave her the coat before the family was relocated to the ghetto with the other Jews in Vilna (Wilno), Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) by the Lithuanians after the Soviets turned control of the region over to them in October 1939. Rivka and her sister, Sonja, escaped the ghetto around 1941 and survived the rest of the war under assumed identities as Christian Poles. All their family, except for one brother, Rafael, perished.

Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld collection

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Maria Rivka Chwoles Lichtenfeld collection

Sheepskin vest worn by a Jewish girl living in hiding