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Group portrait of the employees of a business where Cecil Gelbart worked as a chemist.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 44795
Group portrait of the employees of a business where Cecil Gelbart worked as a chemist. Cecil Gelbart is standing in the middle row, fourth from the right.

Group portrait of the employees of a business where Cecil Gelbart worked as a chemist.

Cecil Gelbart is standing in the middle row, fourth from the right.

Date
Circa 1930 - 1938
Locale
Hamburg, [Hansestadt] Germany
Photo Designation
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Germany (pre-1933) -- Economic Life/Daily Life
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Peter Gelbart

About This Photograph

Biography
Peter Gelbart is the son of Cecil (Sissel) and Elisabeth Gelbart. He was born March 7, 1937 in Hamburg, Germany, where his father worked as a chemist. He had one brother, Robert (born September 10, 1933). Peter's father, who was born in Riga, Latvia, fled to Germany in 1918 in the wake of the Russian Revolution. The Gelbarts left Germany for America on the eve of World War II, arriving in New York aboard the SS Franconia on August 28, 1939. The family subsequently settled in Philadelphia.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Peter Gelbart
 
Record last modified: 2001-05-15 00:00:00
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