Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland

Identifier
irn159556
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2015.381.6
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn159556

Extent and Medium

oversize box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Douglas Smith

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Douglas Smith.

Scope and Content

Consists of one brown photograph album depicting life in an unknown refugee home for children in Switzerland, circa 1945-1947. The album documents their education and recreational activities, as well as the preparations, ceremony, and departure of members of the group for Palestine. One of the pages includes a small leather badge with Hebrew lettering.

Subjects

  • Switzerland.
  • Emigration and immigration--Israel--1940-1950.
  • Children--Institutional care--Switzerland.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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