American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors Photographs

Identifier
irn548909
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.28
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Yiddish
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn548909

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Benjamin Meed of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors in New York City donated the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in February 1992.

Scope and Content

The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors photographs consists of 21 photographs, primarily post-liberation images of Jews in Poland, exhuming burial sites, conducting memorials, and related subjects. The photographs were brought from Europe to the United States in 1945 by Jacob Patt who made an official trip to Poland as a representative for an American Jewish organization.

System of Arrangement

The American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors Photographs is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Patt, Emanuel.
  • Korman, Edsia.
  • Edelman, Marek.
  • Starker, Jasio.
  • Klepfisz, Rozka.
  • Sawicka, Marysia.
  • Tylberg, Krysia.
  • Wachalska, Anna.

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Genre

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