Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection

Identifier
irn37521
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.199.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Czech
  • Hebrew
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Wechsler

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Miriam Wechsler in 2011.

Scope and Content

Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, transferred to the subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and eventually liberated by the Russians in Czechoslovakia.

Subjects

Genre

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