Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of 13 images of children and Bricha workers, including Ruth Salton, at Bricha centers and safe houses in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland). They were taken by an unknown amateur photographer from 1946 to 1948.
- Date
-
inclusive:
1946-1948
- Collection Creator
- Ruth Salton
- Biography
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Ruth Salton was born January 22, 1927, in Berlin, Germany. She was hidden in Warsaw, Poland, by a Polish family at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1939. She escaped to the Russian-occupied region of Poland and was deported to Siberia until 1944. She moved to Stettin, Germany, and joined a kibbutz there and was later active in the Bricha, helping to smuggle Jews across Europe en route to Palestine (Israel).
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- Organization of the photographs is in the order in which they were received
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.
Keywords & Subjects
- Personal Name
- Salton, Ruth, 1927-
- Corporate Name
- Beriḥah (Organization)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Ruth Salton in 1988.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:10:38
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