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Josef Schwartz photograph collection

Document | Accession Number: 2005.213.1

The collection consists of 48 photographs from Łodź, Poland, before World War II and of the Łodź ghetto. The collection illustrates the Szwarc family before the war and during their imprisonment in the Łodź ghetto.

Genre/Form
Photographs.
Extent
1 folder

About This Document

Document Creator
Josef Schwartz
Biography
In October 1944, Josef Szwarc (b. November 17, 1921 in Lodz, Poland), his two brothers, Pinchas and Leib, and their father, Jakub Szwarc, were deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp. They survived World War II. Josef's mother, Chaja Fajga, survived as well, but Ester Ita, a sister, who was born in 1919, was killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944.

Keywords and Subjects

Administrative History

Legal Status
Permanent Collection
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Josef Schwartz.

Rights and Restrictions

Conditions on Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use
No restrictions on use
 
Record last modified: 2021-05-25 15:07:36
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