Leon Shear photographs

Document | Accession Number: 2000.302

Consists of five photographs depicting Leon Shear and his friends and family members as refugees at the displaced persons camp in Feldafing, Germany, from 1945 to 1947.

Date: 1945-1947
Language: English
Genre/Form: Photographs.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Leon Shear

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Topical Term: Refugees--Germany--Feldafing--1940-1950.
Refugee camps--Germany--Feldafing--1940-1950.
Geographic Name: Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
Personal Name: Shear, Leon.
Corporate Name: Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Leon Shear in 2000.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Leon Shear, his family, and his friends. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

Leon Shear papers

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Contains one videocassette about Leon Shear's trip to Poland in 1998, where in he recounts his Holocaust experiences; and copies of: one black and white photograph of the Shear family taken in Benozin, Poland, in 1933; one black and white photograph of Leon Shear three weeks after liberation in Starnberg, Germany; and one black and white photograph taken of Leon Shear's return to Auschwitz in July 1998.