Overview
- Description
- Contains an autograph book kept by the donor during her recuperation in Forsbacka, Sweden after her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp in April 1945; photographs depicting Sonia Wajngarten in the boarding school in Forsbacka, Sweden, dated 1945-1946. Also includes letters, photographs, and a postcard related to the experieces of Kurt Tschmul [later Chaim Shoked] (donor's late husband) who together with his younger brother Siegfried Sigi, left Vienna on the Kindertransport; their parents, Anna and Binem Tschmul, managed to leave Vienna in April 1939 for Shanghai, and the family was reunited in Israel in 1949.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Sonia Wajngarten Shoked
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Letters. Postcards. Photographs. Autograph books.
- Extent
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2 folders
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.
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Sonia Shoked. An accretion of additional materials was donated by Sonia Shoked in 2013.
- Funding Note
- The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-03-26 11:29:11
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