Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection
- 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.
- Date
- approximately 1932-1946
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- Geography
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received:
Stuttgart (Displaced persons camp);
Stuttgart (Germany)
use: Marine Flasher (Ship);
- Date
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use:
1946 May
- Date
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interview:
1984 May 16
- Date
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interview:
1984 May 16
- Date
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interview:
2001 October 23
- Geography
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received:
Stuttgart (Germany)
- Date
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creation:
after 1946 January-before 1946 May
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Record last modified: 2019-12-05 22:37:34
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn61063
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Child's blue striped sweater vest worn by a former hidden child on her arrival to the US
Object | Accession Number: 2013.470.2
Oral history interview with Philip Schechter
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.470.3 | RG Number: RG-50.741.0001
Oral history interview with Jean Schechter
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.470.4 | RG Number: RG-50.741.0002
Oral history interview with Barbara Cohen
Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.470.5 | RG Number: RG-50.741.0003
Pencil portrait of a former Jewish Polish hidden child done in DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 2013.470.6