Lissek family photographs

Identifier
irn514776
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.319
Dates
1 Jan 1949 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Leon Lissek donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 30, 1997.

Scope and Content

Consists of three post-war photographs of Channa Lissek and her sons Leon, Marcel, and Jacques. The boys spent the war in hiding with the help of the OSE. The boys' father, Sam Lissek, perished in Auschwitz; one of the photographs, taken in 1950, shows Channa's second husband.

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.