Overview
- Description
- The collection consists of photographs of Dicker family members taken prior to the Holocaust in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
- Date
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1939
- Collection Creator
- Yaffa Rosenthal
- Biography
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Yaffa Rosenthal was born of Jewish parents on Oct. 7, 1926, in Solotwina, Poland (Ukraine.) She and her family were deported to a massacre site at Kam'i︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine, but they hid from the guards and escaped. They walked to Stanislav, Ukraine, in 1941 and found a guide to take them to Hungary, but they could not stay there. Yaffa then went with her uncle to Transylvania but later choose to join her sister in Budapest, Hungary, in 1942. In 1944, Yaffa and her sister were forced into a ghetto and sent on a forced march to Germany, but Yaffa returned to Budapest and was later liberated by the Soviet Army. She emigrated to Palestine, lived there until 1959, and then emigrated to the United States.
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
- Geographic Name
- Prague (Czech Republic).
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
-
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Yaffa Rosenthal in 1990.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:21:40
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522164
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Also in Yaffa Rosenthal collection
Contains materials donated by Yaffa Rosenthal. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Yaffa Rosenthal photographs
Document
One photograph depicts Captain Sloime Yoszef, Jr., and other men in front of a train as they were being deported to a Hungarian labor camp, and the other photograph is a modern copy enlargement of Captain Yoszef.
