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Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.

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    Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.
    Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.

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    Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.
    Date
    1945
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Michael Hersh

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    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Michael Hersh
    Source Record ID: Collections: RG-50.002*0076

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    Biography
    Michael Hersch was born in Rakosin, Czechoslovakia in 1929. After the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, he was sent to the Munkacz ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz he was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp and the Wels sub-camp where he was liberated. After the war, he was reunited with his brothers, Albert and Avraham, with whom he immigrated to the United States.
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    2021-03-26 00:00:00
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