Simone Brand Birndorf photographic collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Simone Brand Birndorf
Biographical History
Simone Brand Birndorf (born Simonka Brand) was born in 1938 in Łódź, Poland to Stefzca and Izak Brand. At the age of three, Simone was sent to live with her paternal uncle, Felix Brand, and his wife Irka Brand, who were living in Poland under falsified papers. Her parents perished in the Holocaust. After the war, the Brand family, with Simone’s surviving paternal grandmother lived in the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons Camp in Germany before immigrating to Israel and later Canada. Simone Brand married Harold Birndoft (d. 2018), and they had three children.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Simone Brand Birndorf
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Simone Brand Birndorf donated the Simone Brand Birndoft photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
Scope and Content
The Simone Brand Birndorf photograph collection consists of black and white photographic prints of members of the Brand family of Łódź, Poland, taken before and after World War II.
System of Arrangement
The Simone Brand Birndorf photograph collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Birndorf, Simone Brand.
- Brand, Irka.
- Brand, Felix.
- Brand, Stefzca.
- Brand, Simonka.
- Brand, Izak.
Subjects
- Germany.
- Jewish children in the Holocaust.
- Zeilsheim (Germany)
- Łódź (Poland)
- Hidden children (Holocaust)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Poland.
- Families.
- Holocaust victims.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.