Shoshana Benes photographs

Identifier
irn36406
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2008.322
Dates
1 Jan 1920 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Shoshana Benes donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Scope and Content

Consists of nine photographs from the collection of Shoshana Marin Benes (originally Rajsla Meryn), originally of Bedzin, Poland. The photographs depict life before the Holocaust, life in the Bedzin ghetto, and include two studio portraits of Rajsla Meryn wearing the Magen David. Also includes photographs of teenagers taken in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.

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Genre

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.