Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection

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

Date: inclusive: 1929-1959
Geography: received: Stuttgart (Displaced persons camp); Stuttgart (Germany)
use: Marine Flasher (Ship);
Date: use: 1946 May
Date: interview: 1984 May 16
Date: interview: 1984 May 16
Date: interview: 2001 October 23
Geography: received: Stuttgart (Germany)
Date: creation: after 1946 January-before 1946 May
: Record last modified: 2019-12-05 22:37:34
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