Ben Shneiderman photographs

Identifier
irn46946
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.204.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46946

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ben Shneiderman

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Prof. Ben Shneiderman.

Scope and Content

Contains eight photographs depicting the Szymin and the Sznajderman families before the war in Warsaw, Otwock and Kazimierz, Poland; two photographs depicting Benjamin and Ryfka Szymin (donor's maternal grandparents) and Ryfka’s sister, Malka, in the Otwock Ghetto, dated c. 1941; one photographic postcard with an image George Kadisch showing the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, captioned on verso: “Warsaw 1945 – Nalewki Street.”

Subjects

  • Otwock (Poland)

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.