Alpert family collection

Identifier
irn41489
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.254.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn41489

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sabina Alpert Cohen

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Sabina Alpert Cohen.

Scope and Content

Collection of photographs of the Ptaszek family in Warsaw, Poland before the war; the Berger family (Berta Berger with her siblings in the Jaworzno ghetto), Abraham Ptaszek Alpert and Bertha Berger Alpert in Marburg, Germany immediately after the liberation, at their wedding, with their baby Sabina Rose; and images of Sabina Rose Alpert as baby in Marburg, 1925-1949. Includes documents relating to the Alpert family's timein Germany 1945-1947 and their immigration to the US in 1947. Also includes audio cassettes on which Mr. Abraham Alpert recorded his memoirs later published as “Spark of Life” c. 1979.

Corporate Bodies

  • DP-Camp Bergen-Belsen

Subjects

  • Marburg (Germany)
  • Warsaw (Poland).

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.