Registration card for photographer Joseph Gruenfeld.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 60750

Date: 1946 February 02
Locale: Steyr, [Upper Austria] Austria
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Austria -- Steyr
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph & Rachel Greenfield

Biography: Josef and Rachel (Bunis) Gruenfeld (later Greenfield). Josef was born on February 13, 1919 in Dabie, Poland. After surviving several concentration camps, including Mauthausen, he worked for the 331st U.S. Infantry Division performing various tasks, among them photography. In 1946, Gruenfeld met and married Rachel Bunis (b. Kowal, Poland) in the Braunau displaced persons' camp. Josef took extensive photographs in Braunau, Ebelsberg, Ranshofen, Steyr, Bindermichl, and Muenichholtz before immigrating to the United States in February 1949. Their son David Schlama Greenfield was born February 3, 1947 in the Braunau displaced persons camp.
Keyword: DOCUMENTS
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
IDENTIFICATION PAPERS
PHOTOGRAPHERS/FILM CREWS
PHOTOGRAPHS
REGISTRATION
STEYR
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Joseph & Rachel Greenfield

Source Record ID: Collections: RG-19.059

Second Record ID: Collections: 1999.A.0029
: Record last modified: 2008-09-25 00:00:00
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