Solomon Manischewitz photograph collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Solomon Manischewitz in 1999.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of photographs taken in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Most of the photographs depict the students and staff of the Henrieta Szold Hebrew School in Zeilsheim where Solomon Manischewitz taught and the Zeilsheim High School. The collection also includes images of festivities held at Zeilsheim on May 15, 1948, when Israel was proclaimed an independent state.
People
- Manischewitz, Sara.
- Manischewitz, Solomon.
Corporate Bodies
- Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)
Subjects
- Monuments & memorials--Germany--Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main)--1940-1950.
- Refugee camps--Germany.
- School children--Germany.
- Celebrations--Germany--Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main)--1940-1950.
- Refugees--Germany--Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main)--1940-1950.
- Teachers--Germany--Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.