Overview
- Description
- Consists of 25 mainly wartime photographs taken of the Lewitzky family: Sigi and Jetti Lewitzky and their children Inge and Gerhard. The family emigrated from Vienna, Austria to Degersheim, Switzerland in 1938 and remained there throughout the war. Sigi was sent to a labor camp from 1940-1945, but was reunited with his family after the war; collection includes photographs of the family in Switzerland as well as photographs of Sigi Lewitzky and his forced labor group.
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
- The Museum is in the process of determining the possible use restrictions that may apply to material(s) in this collection.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Gary Lewitzky donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in May 1997.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:08:51
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514775
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