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Studio portrait of Solly Ganor in the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 07668
Studio portrait of Solly Ganor in the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

Studio portrait of Solly Ganor in the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

Date
November 1945 - January 1946
Locale
Landsberg, [Bavaria] Germany
Variant Locale
Landsberg Am Lech
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany: Major Centers -- Landsberg -- Daily Life/Families/Portraits
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Eric Saul

About This Photograph

Biography
Solly Ganor was a young Lithuanian Jew who befriended Chiune Sugihara in Kaunas and who may have influenced him to issue transit visas to Jewish refugees. Ganor himself never escaped Lithuania. He was captured by the Germans after Lithuania was occupied in June-July 1944 and spent many years in Nazi concentration camps. In an ironic twist of fate, he was finally liberated southeast of Dachau by Japanese-American troops with the 522nd field artillery Battalion.

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Photo Source
Eric Saul
Copyright: Agency Agreement (No Fees)
Published Source
Visas for Life: The Remarkable Story of Chiune & Yukiko Sugihara and the Rescue of Thousands of Jews - Holocaust Oral History Project: San Francisco, California - p. 35
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-28 00:00:00
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