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

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 60751

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

Overview

Caption: 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 Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph & Rachel Greenfield

Rights & 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

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: BRAUNAU CHILDREN (0-3 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH DP CAMPS/CENTERS DPS (JEWISH) EXTERIORS STREET SCENES VIEWS WOMEN
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Austria -- Braunau

Administrative Notes

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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