Biruta Poyser photograph collection

Identifier
irn523029
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.73
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523029

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Biruta Poyser.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of three photographs and one photographic postcard of staff at the Jewish hospital in the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. The postcard shows three rows of doctors and nurses standing outside the hospital. The remaining three photographs are individual portraits of survivors who worked at the hospital. Included among these portraits are Bronislawa Lewkowicz, wearing a nurse's uniform; Mania Fajvlevitz, a midwife, wearing a pearl necklace and rectangular pin; and Hania Feiner.

People

  • Lewkowicz, Bronislawa.
  • Feiner, Hania.
  • Fajvlevitz, Mania.

Subjects

  • Nurses--Poland.
  • Łódź (Poland)
  • Ethnic neighborhoods--Poland--Łódź--1940-1950.
  • Hospitals--Poland--Łódz.
  • Physicians--Poland.

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.