Overview
- Description
- Collection consists of two pages of copyprints with several photos of family portraits per page.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hanna Hirshaut
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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- 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.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Hanka Hirshaut.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-08-08 16:11:27
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Also in Hanna Hirshaut collection
The collection consists a blouse and photographs related to the experiences of Hanna Warhaftig Hirshaut and her family in Poland before and during the Holocaust.
Date: 1938-1943
Lavender blouse with tie worn during a young woman's escape from the Warsaw ghetto
Object
Blouse worn by 25 year old Hanna Warhaftig when she escaped from the Warsaw ghetto in March 1943. The blouse originally belonged to her mother, Basia, who gave it to her, with her blessing, to wear for her escape. Hanna wore it on special occasions while living in hiding on the Aryan side because it made her feel safe. Her mother was murdered in Treblinka in 1942 and this blouse is the only thing saved from her prewar life. The Jewish ghetto in Warsaw was established by the Germans not long after their September 1939 occupation of Poland. From summer 1942 on, there were frequent mass deportations of Jew to concentration camps. In January 1943, as the Germans prepared to deport the remaining inhabitants, they were met with resistance and withdrew. In April, the Germans brought in fresh troops and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. It ended with the destruction of the ghetto in May. Hanna survived the remainder of the war by living in hiding. The rest of her family perished during the Holocaust.
