Overview
- Description
- The photograph depicts two women, one carrying the other, outside of what appears to be a farm in the town of Świerże, near Chelm, Poland. According to the donor, the woman being carried in the photograph was her mother's sister. The photo is inscribed on the verso in Yiddish.
- Date
-
creation:
circa 1941
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ita Spiller
Physical Details
- Language
- Yiddish
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
-
1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as a single series.
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
- Farms--Poland--Świerże--1940-1950.
- Geographic Name
- Świerże (Chelm, Poland)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Ita Spiller donated this photograph to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1996.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-04-01 11:42:18
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514793
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Also in Ita Spiller collection
The collection consists of a photograph of a woman carrying another woman, as well as a piece of Łódź ghetto scrip, (10 mark coin), and a Nazi pin.
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
Object
10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.
Nazi pin
Object
Nazi pin which came from a bombarded house in Berlin. Oval-shaped pin with a swastika in the center and "21 Juni 1934" printed above and below.
