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Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 55325
Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.

Studio portrait of Michael Hersh (left) and his brother Albert Hersh, in an unidentified displaced persons camp.

Date
1945
Photo Designation
DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Unidentified -- Daily Life/Families
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Michael Hersh

About This Photograph

Biography
Michael Hersch was born in Rakosin, Czechoslovakia in 1929. After the German occupation of Hungary in 1944, he was sent to the Munkacz ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz he was sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp and the Wels sub-camp where he was liberated. After the war, he was reunited with his brothers, Albert and Avraham, with whom he immigrated to the United States.

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Rights and Restrictions

Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Michael Hersh
Source Record ID: Collections: RG-50.002*0076
 
Record last modified: 2021-03-26 00:00:00
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