Venant Hanzelka collection

Identifier: irn45357
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45357

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Hana Strasen.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Korelle camera, a pouch, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Venant and Stepanka Hanzelka, and their daughter Hana, while living in hiding in German occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.

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Hanzelka family photograph
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47637
- English
- 1942
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Photograph taken by Venant Hanzelka of his wife Stepanka and daughter Hana, dated 1942 near Svojanov, Czechoslovakia. Venant Hanzelka took the photograph while he was visiting Stepanka and Hana, who fled to a mill in a forest after they became endangered by the resistance activities of Venant and his brother Alfons. Alfons was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where he perished. While staying at the mill, Venant visted his family, and was reunited with them after the war.
Korelle 3x4 camera and a brown leather pouch used by a member of the Czech resistance
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47638
- English
- 1942-1945
- a: Height: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Korelle 3X4 camera with a pouch for a case used by Venant Hanzelka while he, his wife Stepanka, and four year old daughter Hana lived in hiding from the Gestapo in German occupied Czechoslovakia from 1942-1945. Venant, Stepanka, and his brother, Alfons, joined an underground Czech resistance group after Germany forcibly annexed the Bohemia and Moravia provinces, which included Brno, where they lived, in March 1939. Alfons was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1942. Stepanka and Hana went into hiding in an old mill in the forest near the town of S...

Venant Hanzelka collection

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Hanzelka family photograph

Korelle 3x4 camera and a brown leather pouch used by a member of the Czech resistance