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Portrait of the Zuckermann family.

Photograph | Not Digitized | Photograph Number: 33158

Overview

Caption: Portrait of the Zuckermann family.

Ruth Zuckermann with parents Perle and Heinz shortly before her father's emigration from Germany to England.
Date: 1939 July 10
Locale: Rostock, [Mecklenburg] Germany?
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Carl H. Rosner

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Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Carl H. Rosner

Source Record ID: Collections: IRN 539408

Second Record ID: Collections: 2016.308

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Keyword: CHILDREN (4-12 YEARS) CHILDREN/YOUTH (WHO PERISHED) CLOSE-UPS FAMILIES (PREWAR JEWISH) GROUP PORTRAITS INTERIORS JEWS (GERMAN)
Photo Designation: JEWISH LIFE IN NAZI GERMANY -- Daily Life/Families/Street Scenes

Administrative Notes

Biography: Ruth Zuckermann was born the only daughter of Heinz and Perle (Singermann) Zuckermann on July 19, 1931 in Rostock, Germany. She had three brothers, Alfred (later Yaakov Zur), Max, and Louis. Ruth's parents came to Germany from Poland following World War I and were the proprietors of a shoe store in Rostock. Given the rise of antisemitic attacks on Jewish students in Rostock schools, Perle and Heinz decided to send their sons to study at the Samson-Raphael-Hirsch School in Frankfurt am Main. The brothers later returned to Rostock following Kristallnacht when Heinz was arrested and sent to a concentration camp. While Heinz was imprisoned it fell to Alfred and Perle to liquidate the family business and to arrange for Heinz' emigration from Germany. In summer 1939 Heinz Zuckermann left Germany for England. Alfred, Max, and Louis soon followed suit and arrived in Palestine that same year. Perle and Ruth, who had not been able to obtain visas, remained behind. At some point following the departure of her father and brothers Ruth came in to the care of the orphanage operated by the Hamburg Jewish community. Ruth and her mother reunited at some point prior to their deportation to Auschwitz on July 11, 1942. On this same transport were the remaining children and staff of the Jewish orphanage. Neither Ruth nor Perle survived the Holocaust.

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