Photograph of Dora Roth after liberation
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Dora Goldstein Roth
Biographical History
Dora Goldstein Roth was born in 1932, in Warsaw, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Dora's family fled to Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania. When the Germans occupied Vilna, Dora's father was shot, and the rest of the family was confined in the Vilna ghetto. Dora, her sister, and her mother were deported to the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Latvia and then to the Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig (Gdansk), Poland. Her mother and sister perished in Stutthof. Dora was shot immediately before liberation, but she survived.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Dora Roth donated the photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
Scope and Content
Photograph of Dora Roth, as a teenager, taken just after she was liberated from a concentration camp. Roth wears a striped jacket or coat and striped trousers.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
People
- Roth, Dora Goldstein, 1932-
Subjects
- Ex-concentration camp inmates.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document