Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection

Overview

Collection Summary

The collection consists of a pencil portrait, a knitted vest, documents, photographs, and oral histories relating to the experiences of Basha Schachter and her parents Filip and Janina during the Holocaust in Poland and Germany when they lived in hiding under assumed identities, and after the Holocaust in displaced persons camps in Germany.

Provenance

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Barbara Schechter Cohen, the daughter of Philip and Jean Hirsch Schechter.