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Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection

Document | Accession Number: 2012.314.1

Photographs of Kaufman and Gliklich family members before the war in Łódź, Poland and after the war in the Wels DP camp. Includes photographs of Braun family members in Berlin, Germany before they immigrated to Palestine in 1937. Also includes a Polish passport issued in Sweden to Shmuel Kaufman in 1948 and a copy of the marriage certificate of the donor's parents.

Chaja Frymet Gliklich Kaufman, b. 1900. Shmuel's mother, who was murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Shmuel's maternal aunt, Lodka Shapiro. During the Lodz ghetto liquidation in August 1944, Lodka together with her two year old daughter Fanny were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered on arrival. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Shmuel Kaufman's father Gershon Shlomo Kaufman born on December 14, 1897 in Busko Zdroj, Poland Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge From left: Miriam Braun, Shmuel's wife, her sister Daliah (Hilda) Naveh and a friend; Germany Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Hilda Braun (later Daliah Naveh), Miriam Kaufman's sister. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Memorial at Hildesheim Cemetery commemorating the common grave in which Gershon Kaufman, Shmuel's father and other prisoners are buried. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Israel Gliklich, son of Itzchak and Malka Gliklich, born in the Wels DP camp. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge The management of the Transportation Department in the Lodz Ghetto. The man on the left wearing the Star of David is Yehuda Shapiro, Lodka's husband. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge The management of the Kitchen Department in the Lodz Ghetto. Clockwise: Feder, Baruch Praszkier, Shmuel's father Gershon amd Riva Chirurg (born Cytryn). Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Anatol Kaufman, brother of Gershon Kaufman, born in 1911. He survived the Holocaust in the USSR and immigrated to Israel in 1958. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Shmuel with friends at the market place in Falun, Sweden in 1946. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Kopel Charles Kaufman, paternal uncle of Gershon Kaufman, was born in 1907 and immigrated to Paris, France. In 1942 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked as an electrician. He wrote a memoir of his time in Auschwitz in Yiddish which is i Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Shmuel's maternal Uncle Itzchak Gliklich with his son Israel at the Wells DP camp in Austria in 1947. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Shmuel's maternal Uncle Itzchak Gliklich and his wife Malka Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Shmuel on an excursion in Gothenburg Harbor, Sweden in 1947. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge First Sargeant Shmuel Kaufman (first frim left in the first row) and his future wife Corporal Miriam Braun (first from left in second row) at a frien'd wedding party. Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge Miriam Braun and Shmuel Kaufman wedding on September 22, 1955 Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman Collection Click to enlarge
Language
Polish
Genre/Form
Photographs.
Passport.
Marriage certificates.
Extent
1 folder
Credit Line
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Shmuel and Miriam Kaufman

Keywords and Subjects

Geographic Name
Łódź (Poland).
Corporate Name
Wels (Displaced persons camp)

Administrative History

Holder of Originals
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Shmuel M. and Miriam Kaufman

Rights and 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.

 
Record last modified: 2023-02-24 13:39:03
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