Juanita Carmi collection
Acquisition
Gift of Juanita Carmi, 2016.
Scope and Content
Photographs of the exended family of Juanita Carmi (nee Chmielnicki), including pre-World War II photos from Poland, post-war photographs of her step-father, Markus Kavior, and the latter's naturalization (United States) certificate. Also include is material related to a historical research project conducted by Carmi in the 1992, for a university class, in which she interviewed four Holocaust survivors about their experiences as displaced persons in the immediate aftermath of World War II. This material includes four audiocassette recordings of the interviews, a typed list of questions, and the resulting research paper that drew upon the interviews as source material. Also included is an audiocassette recording of an interview conducted with Carmi's cousin, Aharon Carmi, which was part of a radio program broadcast in Israel in 1991.
Genre
- Collection