Franka and Salomon Szoten collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sarah Szoten
Sarah Szoten donated her parents' collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Scope and Content
Consists of 12 photographs of individuals and groups of Holocaust survivors, some of which were taken at the Landsberg concentration camp in 1945-1946. Many of the photographs depict survivors wearing components of their concentration camp uniforms. Also includes photographs of American soldiers with displaced persons and an image of American soldier Frank Tauber posing with Nazi iconography. Also includes a French/English/German language booklet published in France in 1944 and a wedding announcement for the joint wedding of Franka Litman to Salomon Schotten and Adele Litman to Izak Tirk, which took place in Buchloe in January 1946. These photographs and documents are from the collection of Franka Litman and Salomon Schotten [Salomon Szotten] who met in 1942 in the Łódź ghetto, survived separate camps and reunited after the war.
People
- Litman, Adele.
- Schotten, Salomon.
- Schotten, Franka Litman.
- Tirk, Izak.
- Tauber, Frank.
Subjects
- Łódź (Poland)
- Buchloe (Germany)
- Holocaust survivors--Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.