Robert Mendler photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Robert Mendler (Romek Reibeisen) donated his collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Jul. 16, 1997.
Scope and Content
Consists of 26 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Romek Reibeisen (now Robert Mendler), originally of Nowy Targ, Poland; includes pre-war family photographs and post-war photographs taken at a commemoration at the site of the Pocking concentration camp. Notable is a photograph of an elderly Jew holding an infant on which the caption reads "Like the old one, so the young"; this photograph was in the possession of a member of the SS.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document