Portrait of the donor, Alexander Feuer, in his former concentration camp uniform.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 02109

Date: June 1947
Locale: Memmingen, [Bavaria] Germany
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Memmingen
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alex Feuer

Biography: Alexander Feuer was born August 1, 1929 in Satu Mare, Hungary. A ghetto was established in the town in the spring of 1944. He lived there only a few weeks before being deported to Auschwitz in May. In August he was sent to Germany, where he was moved around between the various concentration camps in the Kaufering system until March of 1945. Four days before liberation he escaped from the Turkheim camp, but returned immediately afterwards and registered as a displaced person. At this point he was taken to Landsberg, where he remained only briefly before undertaking the trek on foot to Memmingen. There he was processed by OMGUS officials and placed in the UNRRA children's home in Chiemsee. He remained in the home until his emigration to the United States aboard the Marine Flasher in September 1947.
Keyword: CHILDREN/YOUTH
CLOSE-UPS
DPS (JEWISH)
STUDIO PORTRAITS
UNIFORMS
YOUTH (13-20 YEARS)
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Alex Feuer
Museum of Jewish Heritage/Center For Holocaust Studies

Copyright: Exclusively with source

Source Record ID: 2000
: Record last modified: 2014-07-28 00:00:00
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