Sender Wajsman papers

Identifier
irn503707
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.A.0024
  • RG-26.001
Dates
1 Jan 1936 - 31 Dec 1991
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Sender Wajsman donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives via Jeshajahu Weinberg, Museum Director, September 1991.

Scope and Content

Contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding gathering in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1936; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a photograph depicting the memorial to the dead in Ponary.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is chronological

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