Ella Lidsky photographs
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Ella Lidsky
Biographical History
Ella Lidsky (born Ella Cwik) was bornin 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius , Lithuania) to Leib and Szejna Cwik. She was in school in the Soviet Union when World War II started. Her parents and six sisters perished during the Holocaust, but she and her older brother, Pinchas, who had immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s, survived. Ella graduated from Odessa Pedagogical Institute after the war and worked as an elementary school teacher in Poland and then in Israel after she immigrated in 1957. She immigrated to the United States in 1962, settled in New York City, and married Alexander Lidsky, a physician who was also a Holocaust survivor from Vilna.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The copy prints were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Ella Cwik Lidsky.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 23 copy prints of Alexander Lidsky and Ella Cwik Lidsky's families. The original photographs were created between the 1910s and the 1940s.
People
- Lidsky, Alexander.
- Lidsky, Ella Cwik.
- Lidsky, Pesia.
- Cwik, Mary.
- Lidsky family.
- Cwik, Leib.
- Cwik family.
- Lidsky, Tolka.
- Cwik, Mananna.
- Ella Lidsky
Subjects
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.