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Joseph Katz in Dachau, where he was liberated.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 07413
Joseph Katz in Dachau, where he was liberated.

Joseph Katz in Dachau, where he was liberated.

Date
May 1945
Locale
Dachau, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation
MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Dachau -- LIBERATION -- Survivors -- General
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Cyla Kowenski

About This Photograph

Biography
Joseph Katz lost his wife and four children in the Kovno ghetto and he was deported to Dachau. He was liberated in 1945 and came to Italy, where he was sent to a DP camp in Santa Cesarea, and then in Bari, Italy. In 1948 in Bari, he married his second wife, Rose Felanska, and they emigrated to the United States. Joseph Katz died in 1985.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Cyla Kowenski
 
Record last modified: 2001-06-07 00:00:00
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