Elsa Eisne (the donor's aunt) walks down a street in Prague wearing the Jewish badge.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 04570

Overview

Caption: Elsa Eisne (the donor's aunt) walks down a street in Prague wearing the Jewish badge.

Elsa, her mother, twin sister Klara, and other relatives were deported to Auschwitz in July 1942. The donor's father, Joseph, was the husband of a German Christian woman, Maria. Joseph and his son, Al, were deported to Theresienstadt and interned there until the camp was liberated by the Red Army on May 9, 1945.
Date: Circa 1941
Locale: Prague, [Bohemia] Czechoslovakia
Variant Locale: Praha
Czech Republic
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Alfred Eisner

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Alfred Eisner

Source Record ID: Collections: 2004.359

Keyword: BADGES (STAR OF DAVID) CZECHS JEWS (CZECH) STREET SCENES WOMEN
Photo Designation: INVASION & OCCUPATION -- Bohemia/Moravia -- JEWS -- Daily Life/Economic Life/Families