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Doris Edelman (nee Tager) (on the right) poses with a friend during a visit to the Statue of Liberty.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 75785
Doris Edelman (nee Tager) (on the right) poses with a friend during a visit to the Statue of Liberty.

Doris Edelman (nee Tager) (on the right) poses with a friend during a visit to the Statue of Liberty.

Date
Circa 1945
Locale
New York City, NY United States
Photo Designation
USA/CANADA: JEWISH LIFE -- Postwar
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alan Edelman

About This Photograph

Biography
Doris Edelman (born Tager), the mother of the donor is the daughter of Jacob Tager and Fanny Brender Tager. She was born in Hannover, Germany in 1925. Her younger brother Henry was born in 1930. Doris attended public school until the Nazi's expelled all Jewish students. She then attended Catholic school. During the Kristallnacht pogrom Jacob was arrested and incarcerated in Dachau for approximately six months. In either 1939 or 1940 the family immigrated to Cuba aboard the S.S. Rotterdam. After three to five years, they immigrated to the United States and settled in Kansas City.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Alan Edelman
 
Record last modified: 2014-08-01 00:00:00
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