Abe Morgenstern photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Abraham Morgenstern
Biographical History
Abraham (Abe) Morgenstern was born in 1923 in Lublin, Poland. His parents were Russian Jews who moved to Lublin in 1921. Abe attended both a Polish public school and a Jewish school. He graduated from a business school at the age of 16 in 1939. In April 1942, the Morgenstern family was forced to move into one of Lublin’s two ghettos. Abe’s father and sister perished during one of the first actions. Abe and his mother survived and were eventually liberated by the Russians. After the war, they immigrated to Italy, and later to the United States.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Abe Morgenstern in 1998.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of photographs of Abraham Morgenstern (Abe), originally of Czortków, Poland (Chortkiv, Ukraine), and his friend Jack Honig in displaced persons camps in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, and Bari, Italy after the Holocaust.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
People
- Morgenstern, Abraham, 1923-
- Honig, Jack.
- Abraham Morgenstern
Subjects
- Refugees--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--1940-1950.
- Refugee camps--Italy--Bari--1940-1950.
- Demonstrations--Italy--Bari--1940-1950.
- Refugee camps--Germany--Frankfurt am Main--1940-1950.
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Refugees--Italy--Bari--1940-1950.
- Hospitals--Italy--Bari--1940-1950.
- Bari (Italy).
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document