Overview
- Description
- Contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding gathering in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1936; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a photograph depicting the memorial to the dead in Ponary.
- Date
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1936-1991
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arrangement is chronological
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Lithuania--Vilnius. Executions and executioners--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius. Holocaust memorials--Lithuania.
- Geographic Name
- Vilnius (Lithuania) Paneriai (Lithuania)
- Personal Name
- Wajsman, Sender.
- Corporate Name
- Germany. Gestapo
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Sender Wajsman donated the materials to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives via Jeshajahu Weinberg, Museum Director, September 1991.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-25 08:12:49
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503707
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