Ruth Wottitzky Binder photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Ruth Wottitzky Binder donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 2, 1996
Scope and Content
Contains 98 pre-World War II and wartime photographs of the extended family of Ruth Wottizky Binder. Included are photographs of the Weigl, Spaeth, Klepetar, Wottizky, and Goldstein families who lived in Buchlovice, Moravia, and in Sevetin, Olomouc, and Tabor, Czechoslovakia. The Wottizky family managed to emigrate to the United States in 1939. The families remaining in Europe were deported to Theresienstadt and to Auschwitz; only three people survived the war.
People
- Wottizky family.
- Weigl family.
- Spaeth family.
- Goldstein family.
- Klepetar family.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document