Jewish children in a 5th grade class of a public school in Mukachevo.
Overview
- Caption
- Jewish children in a 5th grade class of a public school in Mukachevo.
Those pictured include Miriam Halpert. Deborah Majerchik, Ipi Halpert, Herman Bleier, Frieda Rosenschein, Lenke Feiestein and Blanka Weiser. - Date
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1935
- Locale
- Mukachevo, [Ukraine; Transcarpathia] Czechoslovakia
- Variant Locale
- Munkacs
Hungary
Ukraine
Mukaczewo
Munkatsch
Minkats - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Frieda Lederer
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Frieda Lederer
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Biography
- Frieda Lederer (born Frieda Rosenschein) is the daughter of Samuel Rosenschein and Regina Weinberger Rosenschein. She was born on January 6, 1925 in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia where her father was a merchant. She had four brothers: Benjamin, Moshe, Martin and Simon. Following Passover, 1944, the family was incarcerated briefly in a ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz. Frieda's parents and her brother Moshe perished. Frieda was liberated in Bergen-Belsen by the British army on April 15, 1945. She then went to Goteborg Sweden to recuperate, and in 1946 she returned to Germany where she lived for three yers in Fuerth and Munich. In April 1949 she immigrated to the United States on board to S.S. Hahn.
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