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Chayele Rosenthal collection

Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0319

Contains a scrapbook and sound recordings relating to the musical career of Chayele Rosenthal, a Yiddish singer and actress who performed in the Vilna ghetto.

Language
Yiddish
Polish
Genre/Form
Scrapbooks.
Extent
9 sound recordings.
Extent
1 folder

About This Document

Document Creator
Chayele Rosenthal
Biography
Chayela Rosenthal (Khayele Rozental) (b. Vilna, 1924-d. Cape Town, 1979). A professional singer and actress before the war, Rosenthal was an early and active participant in the Vilna ghetto theater. Surviving the ghetto and several camps, she resumed her career in postwar Paris, and continued to entertain internationally (in Yiddish, Hebrew, and English) after settling in South Africa in 1951. For further information on Rosenthal, see https://chayela.wordpress.com; www.museumoffamilyhistory.com/yt/lex/R/rosenthal-chayela.htm.

Keywords and Subjects

Personal Name
Rosenthal, Chayele.

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Naava Piatka

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
 
Record last modified: 2021-05-25 15:00:43
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