Benjamin Vogel collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Benjamin Vogel
The collection was donated to to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2008 by Benjamin Vogel.
Scope and Content
Contains two photographs; the first is a portrait taken November 27, 1945, of Benjamin Fogel, born on May 9, 1945 in Belyye Vody, Kazakhstan; the second is a group photograph of workers in a sewing shop in Belyye Vody, dated circa July 1945. In the group photo, Rywka Regina Fogel holds up her newborn son Benjamin, while her husband Jakub is seated behind them. Jakuband Regina Vogel fled Poland in 1939 and were deported to a labor camp and later to Kazakhstan, where Jakub worked in a tailoring cooperative.
Subjects
- Belyye Vody (Kazakhstan).
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.