Szczukowski family photographs

Identifier

irn521767

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2004.391

Level of Description

Item

Languages

Yiddish

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521767

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Hynda Halpren donated these photographs of her father and his family to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 1, 1997.

Scope and Content

Consists of eight pre-war photographs of the family of Mendel and Hynda Szczukowski, originally of Łódź, Poland. Of their seven children in Poland (an eighth, Esther, emigrated to Poland in 1916), five perished during the Holocaust, as did Mendel. Hynda passed away in 1932. Also includes post-war photographs of Mojzesz Szczukowski in a displaced persons camp in Hofgeisman, Germany, participating in the sport of boxing.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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.