Lewitzky family photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Gary Lewitzky donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1997.
Scope and Content
Consists of 25 mainly wartime photographs taken of the Lewitzky family: Sigi and Jetti Lewitzky and their children Inge and Gerhard. The family emigrated from Vienna, Austria to Degersheim, Switzerland in 1938 and remained there throughout the war. Sigi was sent to a labor camp from 1940-1945, but was reunited with his family after the war; collection includes photographs of the family in Switzerland as well as photographs of Sigi Lewitzky and his forced labor group.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.