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Jewish DPs walk down a street in the Braunau displaced persons' camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 60751
Jewish DPs walk down a street in the Braunau displaced persons' camp.

Jewish DPs walk down a street in the Braunau displaced persons' camp.

Photographer
Joseph & Rachel Greenfield?
Date
1946
Locale
Braunau Am Inn, [Upper Austria] Austria
Variant Locale
Braunau
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Austria -- Braunau
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph & Rachel Greenfield

About This Photograph

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.

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Rights and Restrictions

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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