Overview
- Description
- 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
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1945-1947
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Leon Shear
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- 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
- Feldafing (Germany : Refugee camp)
- Personal Name
- Shear, Leon.
- Corporate Name
- Feldafing (Displaced persons camp)
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 by Leon Shear in 2000.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-02-24 14:24:06
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Also in Leon Shear collection
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.
Date: 1933-1998
Leon Shear papers
Document
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.
Leon Shear photographs
Document
The collection consists of seven photographs of the friends of Leon Shear [donor] from the Displaced Person's camp in Feldafing, Germany. The photographs all date from 1945-1946, except for one dated from 1939.
Leon Shear papers
Document
One original document issued to donor by local authorities in Broumovo, Czechoslovakia, which authorized the bearer to travel by train from Broumovo vie Pilsen to Feldafing DP camp in Germany, dated 12 December 12, 1945.
