Photograph

Identifier
irn13318
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1999.113.203
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn13318

Extent and Medium

1 Photographic print,

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lidia Siciarz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Ms. Lidia K. Siciarz

Scope and Content

Photographic image; black and white image of Lolek Szwarcman and his wife, Nadia Munwer Szwarcman, donor's maternal uncle, standing outside in snow (Leon Lolek Szwarcman graduated from medical school in Brno, Czechoslowakia in 1937; he tried without success to certify his diploma in Vilna; in 1939 his diploma was recognized by the Soviets and he was permitted to practice medicine; in 1941 he was mobilized into the Soviet Army and in 1944 he returned to Pińsk only to find out that his wife, Nadia, and their daughter, Sofia, perished; he remained in USSR without much contact with his surviving family; he died in 1963 in Lugansk, USSR); dated: 1938; location: Pińsk, Poland

Genre

  • Document
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