Helen Dore collection

Overview

Collection Summary

Photographic print: black and white image of Germans serving in Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliate a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; dated 1942; Lukow, Poland. Photographic postcard: black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi. The father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 – 1940; Sieradz, Poland

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Helen Dore. An accretion of additional materials was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by her estate.