Overview
- Description
- The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names unknown and Lea Lemchen, age 7, [2nd row on the right] were killed in the Rīga ghetto in 1941. Bluma Sandler, age 4, [donor's cousin / seated on the right] Sara Cherfas, age 3 1/2, [donor / seated in the center] and Ester Wishnevskaya, age 7 [donor's father's cousin / standing in the center] survived by escaping from Latvia to Russia with their parents.
- Date
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1939
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographic postcards.
- Extent
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1 folder
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- Conditions on Access
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Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Dumesh, Sara. Lemchen, Lea. Sandler, Bluma. Wishnevskaya, Ester.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Sara Dumesh.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-04-07 11:30:57
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