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Robert Capa and Mark Markov-Grinberg collection

Collection
Collection Summary
The collection consists of photographs taken by Robert Capa, a Hungarian Jewish photojournalist, during the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, and photographic prints by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and war correspondent, before and during World War II.
Provenance
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Dr. Mark Reichman.
Date
1930-1949
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Robert Capa photograph of an Orthodox Jewish male in a rubble strewn street

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.1

Geography
creation: Jerusalem
Date
depiction:  1948 June
publication/distribution:  1948 July 03

Robert Capa photograph of an elderly stone mason cutting a road for Israeli soldiers

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.2

Geography
creation: Jerusalem
Date
depiction:  1948 June
publication/distribution:  1948 July 03

Robert Capa photograph of 3 soldiers loading a truck in Tel Aviv

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.3

Geography
creation: Israel
Date
depiction:  1948 June
publication/distribution:  1948 August 27

Robert Capa photograph of two soldiers carrying a stretcher with a wounded man

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.4

Geography
creation: Tel Aviv (Israel)
Date
depiction:  1948 July

Robert Capa photograph of a people on shore observing a stranded ship

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.5

Geography
creation: Tel Aviv (Israel)
Date
depiction:  1948 July

Robert Capa photograph of the ship Altalena, Israeli War for Independence

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.6

Geography
creation: Tel Aviv (Israel)
Date
depiction:  1948 July

Robert Capa photograph of a performance by the Israeli Philharmonic

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.7

Geography
creation: Ramat-Gan (Israel)
Date
depiction:  1949 August

Robert Capa photograph of an elderly Jewish man in the new state of Israel

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.8

Geography
creation: Israel
Date
depiction:  1949 August

Robert Capa photograph of a Palestinian in Arabic dress at a barbed wire border

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.9

Geography
depiction: Bayt Jala (Palestine, West Bank)
Date
depiction:  1949 August

Mark Markov-Grinberg photograph of a nude female statue with an oar against a moonlit sky

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.10

Geography
depiction: Park of Culture and Recreation; Moscow (Russia)
Date
depiction:  1930

Markov-Grinberg photograph of a smiling girl wearing a headscarf and waving a cloth

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.11

Geography
depiction: North Caucasus; Kabardino-Balkariia (Russia)
Date
depiction:  1936

Markov-Grinberg photograph of a smiling young man and woman rowing a boat

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.12

Geography
depiction: Kalazinsky Monastery; Russia
Date
depiction:  1932

Markov-Grinberg photograph of soldiers driving horse drawn wagons while planes fly overhead

Object | Accession Number: 2005.594.13

Geography
depiction: Kyïv (Ukraine)
Date
depiction:  1936
 
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