Bronislaw Gelczynski (Abraham Gordon) poses in front of a display of Holocaust photographs.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 62033

Date: Circa 1945 - 1949
Locale: Germany?
Photo Designation: DISPLACED PERSONS/RETURN TO LIFE -- DP Camps/Postwar Communities -- Germany -- Unidentified -- Cultural/Religious Life
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mimi Schnier

Biography: Abraham Gordon (born Bronislaw Gelczynski), the father of the donor, was the son of Chaim and Mirjam Gelczynski. He was born in Rozena, Poland on December 25, 1926. In November 1940 he was incarcerated in the Warsaw ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz the following year. He remained there for three years before being transferred to Buchenwald. In 1945 he was evacuated first to Lodz and then to Theresienstadt where he was liberated in May, 1945.
Keyword: CLOSE-UPS
DP CAMPS/CENTERS
DPS (JEWISH)
EXHIBITIONS (HOLOCAUST)
EXHIBITIONS/DISPLAYS
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Mimi Schnier
: Record last modified: 2015-05-12 00:00:00
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