Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz photograph collection

Identifier
irn88646
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.499.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn88646

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Yehudit C. Berkowitz

Biographical History

Itka (Yehudit) survived the Łódź ghetto, where she lost her parents. In September 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. From there she was transferred to Guben concentration camp and later to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, where she was liberated on April 15, 1945.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Ita Charasz Berkowitz.

Scope and Content

Collection of nine photographs documenting the donor's stay in "Kibbutz Buchenwald," a Zionist collective started by a group of survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In July 1945 the kibbutz was moved to Geringshof, the site of the pre-war Jewish agricultural school.

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.