"Ash Camp" photograph album
Extent and Medium
1 photograph album,
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum acquired this photograph album in 2010.
Scope and Content
The Ash Camp photograph album is a leather bound photograph album, black with embossed horses, which includes 326 mounted and labeled photographs. The photograph album's owner is unknown but includes photographs of the Gabe family, the Saul family, the Jake family, and the Elais family. In addition to candid family photographs, there are also photographs of life in Shanghai, the "Ash Camp," likely a camp for Jewish refugees in Shanghai in 1945, and the distribution of food delivered by parachutes by “Yanks.”
System of Arrangement
The photograph album is arranged in chronological order and by family.
People
- Wallz, Fred.
- Gillis, Hilda.
- Fischer, Eva.
- Elias, Isaiah.
- Abraham, Cissy.
- Saul, Flora.
- Levy, Kate.
- Salah, Elizabeth.
- Elais family.
- Elie, Isaiah.
- Asleizs, Manya.
- Saul family.
- Saul, Esther.
- Moalem, Danny.
- Moalen, Joe.
- Gabe family.
- Elias, Leah.
- Isaacs, Katie.
- Manesson, Alica.
- Levy, Aaron.
- Jake family.
Corporate Bodies
- Ash Civilian Assembly Center
Subjects
- Jews--China--Shanghai--History--20th century.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Marriage.
- Refugees.
- Shanghai (China)
- Children.
- Shanghai (China)--Emigration and immigration--History.
- Families.
- Jewish refugees.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--China--Shanghai.
- World War, 1939-1945.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document
- Photograph albums.