Photograph of mourners at a gravesite
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sheva Berland
The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Museum by Sheva Berland in 1990. Created by unknown photographer, 1940, Warsaw, Poland.
Scope and Content
The image depicts the unveiling of the gravestone of Etla Suchomicka at the Gesia Cemetery in Warsaw, Poland, in 1940. Included in the picture are Etla Suchomicka's husband, her daughter, her son, and the Rabbi. All of the people in the photograph are wearing yellow badges.
Subjects
- Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Poland--Warsaw--1940-1950.
- Cemeteries--Poland--Warsaw.
- Memorial rites & ceremonies--Poland--Warsaw--1940-1950.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document