Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of 23 copy prints of Alexander Lidsky and Ella Cwik Lidsky's families. The original photographs were created between the 1910s and the 1940s.
- Collection Creator
- Ella Lidsky
- Biography
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Ella Lidsky (born Ella Cwik) was bornin 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius , Lithuania) to Leib and Szejna Cwik. She was in school in the Soviet Union when World War II started. Her parents and six sisters perished during the Holocaust, but she and her older brother, Pinchas, who had immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s, survived. Ella graduated from Odessa Pedagogical Institute after the war and worked as an elementary school teacher in Poland and then in Israel after she immigrated in 1957. She immigrated to the United States in 1962, settled in New York City, and married Alexander Lidsky, a physician who was also a Holocaust survivor from Vilna.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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
- Topical Term
- Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The copy prints were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Ella Cwik Lidsky.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-09-18 11:28:02
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Also in Lidsky family collection
Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Lidsky family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Lidsky family photographs
Document
The collection consists of two photographs: a formal picture showing the donor's father, Rebbe Leib Cwik, in a jacket and hat and the other picture of five women, one young boy, and one young girl in three hammocks.
