1948 Jewish organizations photographs

Identifier
irn517642
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2007.324
Dates
1 Jan 1948 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn517642

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Shoshana Rosenberg donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Oct. 2005. She is the mother of Judith Cohen, who is the head of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives.

Scope and Content

Consists of four photographs from the World Jewish Congress meetings which took place in Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1948. Includes a photograph of the Israeli delegation, including Rabbi Joseph Gabrieli and Abba Eban, who later became the Israeli foreign minister. Rabbi Gabrieli is the father of the Shoshana Rosenberg, the donor. Also includes photographs taken at a post-war Mizrachi Zionist meeting held in August 1948 in Tel-Aviv. In 1949 Rabbi Gabrieli became the director of the Mizrachi organization.

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.