Overview
- Description
- The papers include three black-and-white photographs, a mixture of original and copies, of Heskel and Miriam Kagan in a toy carriage pulled by a horse. Their mother, Raja Kagan, is also in one of the photos, and she and their father, Berl Kagan, survived the Holocaust in Lithuania. They were living, temporarily, in Rome, Italy, following the war when Heskel (b. 1945) and Miriam (b. 1948) were born. There are also two, black-and-white photographs depicting Berl as part of a group of eight Jewish men, in Rome, Italy.
- Date
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bulk:
1948
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Kagan Lieber.
- Collection Creator
- Miriam Lieber
Physical Details
- Language
- Italian
- 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
- Topical Term
- Displaced persons.
- Geographic Name
- Rome (Italy) Lithuania.
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 in 2022 by Ms. Miriam Kagan Lieber.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-12-21 14:53:07
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Also in Miriam Lieber collection
The collection consists of a child-size, toy horse and carriage and photographs of children with the toy and a group of men relating to the experiences of Miriam (later Lieber) and Heskel Kagan and their parents, Raja and Berl Kagan, in Lithuania during the Holocaust, and in Italy after World War II.
Date: 1948
Toy horse and cart used by Miriam and Heskel Kagan postwar
Object
Colorful, child-sized, toy horse and cart with pedals used by Heskel and Miriam Kagan (later Lieber) in Rome, Italy, where their parents, Berl and Raja settled, temporarily, after surviving the Holocaust in Lithuania. The cart was used by Heskel and Miriam in Italy and then, when the family immigrated to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1950, aboard the USS Hersey, they brought it with them.
