Overview
- Description
- Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, transferred to the subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and eventually liberated by the Russians in Czechoslovakia.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Wechsler
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
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Keywords & Subjects
- Geographic Name
- Ukraine.
- Corporate Name
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Miriam Wechsler in 2011.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-01 11:41:17
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn37521
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