Maya Peretz collection

Identifier
irn41820
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2010.257.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Maya Peretz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Maya Peretz.

Scope and Content

Photographs illustrating the pre-war lives of the Gerstman family and extended relatives in Stanislawow, Poland [present day Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine] and Kalusz, Poland [present-day Ukraine]. Also included are images of Maja Gerstman [donor] in hiding during the second world war with Katerina Diachenko in Ukraine as well as post-war images and identification documents of Maja in Poland and Israel, where she later immigrated. Images include pre and post war photographs of Maja’s mother Miriam Helfgot Gerstman, and father Marek Gerstman, as well as extended relatives who did not survive the Holocaust.

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.