Overview
- Description
- Contains 17 black-and-white photographs from the Leipheim and Föhrenwald displaced persons camps and one displaced persons index card for Rita Gliksman (Hofrichter).
- Date
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inclusive:
1945-1947
- Collection Creator
- Rita G. Hofrichter
- Biography
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Rita Gliksman Hofrichter survived on the Aryan side of Warsaw, Poland, during the Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. She lived there until 1944 when she was sent to Proszków, Poland. While posing as a non-Jew, Rita faked pregnancy by stuffing several sweaters under her clothes and was evacuated to Bochnia, Poland, on Aryan papers along with the elderly and sick. After liberation in 1945, she joined a kibbutz in Łódź, Poland. Rita later traveled to Warsaw to search for her father who had been a member of the partisan resistance; however, she did not locate him and returned to Łódź. Contacted by the Chief Rabbi of England, she decided to attempt immigration to Palestine. She traveled to Germany, through the Russian Zone to the American Zone, arriving in the Leipheim displaced persons camp (formerly Luftwaffe barracks) near Ginsburg and Ulm, Germany. On June 30, 1946, Rita married Joseph Hofrichter, originally from Galicia. Joseph later designed the memorial erected in Leipheim and created a mural in the camp. Their son, Alexander Israel Hofrichter, was born in Ginsburg, Germany. The family immigrated to New York City in January 1948 aboard the SS Marine Flasher.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Arranged chronologically
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection from Rita Hofrichter on Jan. 20, 1999.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-01-22 11:51:56
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