Amos and Edith Turner papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Amos and Edith Turner
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Amos and Edith Turner
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Amos Turner
The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Amos and Edith Turner. An accretion of memoirs was added to the collection in 2017. An accretion of one photograph was added to the collection in 2017.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of 22 loose photographs and seven photographs mounted to a velvet cardboard backing, depicting the experiences of Ita Singer in Glembokie, Poland, and Amos Turner donors in Zawiercie, Poland, during World War II. Also includes Alexander Turner's memoirs describing his early life in Zawierce; meeting and marrying Hela [Chaja] Turner in 1924 and immigrating to Palestine in 1925, where their son Amos was born in 1926; returning to Zawierce; the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939; and the family’s ultimate deportation, Amos to a slave labor camp and Alexander and Hela to Auschwitz, where Hela was killed immediately.
People
- Turner, Amos.
- Turner, Edith.
Subjects
- Workshops--Poland--1940-1950.
Genre
- Document
- Personal narratives.
- Photographs.