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Jenny Eisenstein collection

Document | Not Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.A.0125 | RG Number: RG-10.180

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    Overview

    Description
    The collection relates to members of Jenny Eisenstein's family, containing numerous photographs of people Jenny sang for, either at weddings or bar mitzvahs. The collection includes: miscellaneous photographs of Jews (some are annotated) collected by Jenny from Jewish refugees living in Canada which contain Yiddish or Hebrew, Polish, and English annotations (circa 1920-1935, circa 1946-); miscellaneous correspondence, identification papers, passport (Polish), etc., relating to the immigration of Herz Mordcha Kohn to Canada (circa 1927-1930); a Canadian passport issued to Morris Ricer (circa 1981); and fourteen photographs with duplicates (circa 1940-1946) which were annotated indicating some relevance to the Holocaust.
    Date
    inclusive:  1920-1981
    Collection Creator
    Jenny Eisenstein
    Biography
    Jenny Eisenstein was born Jadzia Oksenhendle in Dzialoszyce, Poland in 1927, and grew up in Będzin, Poland. She had four siblings. During the Holocaust she was a prisoner at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. After the war the Red Cross sent her to Sweden. In Sweden she studied voice, becoming a professional singer in 1950. She married Jacov Eisenstein in 1946. After briefly living in Israrel Jenny immigrated to Canada.

    Physical Details

    Genre/Form
    Photographs.
    Extent
    5 folders
    System of Arrangement
    Arrangement is chronological

    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

    Provenance
    The collection was compiled by Jenny Eisenstein before and after the Holocaust. In Sept. 1993, she donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives.
    Record last modified:
    2023-02-24 14:02:48
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