Exterior view of a large building probably taken during the 18th Zionist Congress.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 97622

Date: 1933
Variant Locale: Praha
Czech Republic
Photo Designation: WORLD RESPONSE (1933-1955) -- Jewish Political/Zionist Activity -- Pre-war/Wartime
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of L. Elly Gotz

Event History: Photographs from the album of Samuel Gotz, uncle of the donor.
Biography: Samuel Gotz. (1895 -1983). Born in Siauliai, Lithuania. He was a lifelong Zionist, was a leader in the early formation of moden Zionism and the Hachalutz movement in Petrograd (Petersburg) in Russia and in the Baltic states. He knew, and worked with many of the leaders of the Zionist movement including Chaim Weitzman, Josef Trumpeldor, Nachum Sokolov, Ussishkin and vladimir Jabotinski. after 1935 he lived in Southern Rhodesia where he was very active in the Zionist organization.

Elly Gotz lived in Kaunas, Lithuania with his parents, Sonja and Julius Gotz. When he was 13, the Nazis confined them to the Kovno Ghetto, along with 29,000 other Lithuanian Jews. After two years in the ghetto, Elly and his father were separated from his mother and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They remained there until the camp was liberated in April, 1945. After the war he and his parentsmoved for a while to Rhodesia where they reunited with Samuel.
Keyword: VIEWS
ZIONIST CONGRESSES
ZIONIST GROUPS/ZIONISM
ZIONIST LEADERSHIP
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: L. Elly Gotz

Second Provenance: Samuel Gotz
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