William Cygelfarb photographs

Identifier
irn514691
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.180
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514691

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Berthe Cygelfarb donated her late husband's photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives on Feb. 9, 2002.

Scope and Content

Contains 45 post-war photographs of William Cygelfarb and many of the children he worked with as a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Łódź, Poland. William Cygelfarb was in the Łódź and Piotrków ghettos, as well as in the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, and survived a death march. After the war he returned to Łódź and worked as a Hashomer Hatzair counselor for formerly hidden children. He emigrated to Canada in 1950.

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.