Gina Bilander collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gina Bilander
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Gina Bilander.
Scope and Content
Album of copy prints of donor's father and his twin brother as well as other family members in prewar Łódź, Poland. Donor's father immigrated to the United States in 1936. He was one of nine children in the family. Original photos of Herman Goering taken in 1945 when donor's father was a Private 1st class member of the 253rd Engineering Corp under General Patton during WWII. Their platoon guarded Herman Goering after his capture in 1945. Photograph of donor's father wearing his army uniform taken in Germany in 1945, signed by donor's father for his wife.