Sam and Susan Gasson photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Susan Gasson
- Sam Gasson
Biographical History
Susan Gasson (1926-2015) was born Susan Elefant on 20 December 1926 in Sighet (Sighetu Marmației, Romania) to Josef Eugen and Frida Szok. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was transferred in October 1944 as a forced-laborer to work camps in Nuremberg and Mehltheuer.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sam and Susan Gasson
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Sam and Susan Gasson in 2005.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of four photographs showing images from a Polish labor camp and the DP camp in Salzburg, Austria.
People
- Susan Gasson
- Gasson, Sam.
- Gasson, Susan.
- Sam Gasson
Subjects
- Police--Austria--Salzburg--1940-1950.
- Refugee camps--Austria--Salzburg--1940-1950.
- Forced labor--1940-1950.
- Work camps--Poland.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
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