Douglas Smith collection

Identifier: irn49296
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Douglas Smith.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of notebooks and photographs relating to the history of poetry and Jewish life in prewar Poland and to the experiences of postwar Holocaust survivors in Sweden, as well as a publication of drawing reproductions by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting Targu Jiu concentration camp in Romania during World War II.

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Douglas Smith document collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn80093
- English
- 1918-1947
- folders 3
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains a notebook with handwritten poems by famous Polish poets, Tarnow, dated c. 1918-1922; photographs and notebooks from Sweden during recuperation of Holocaust survivors after the war, dated c. 1946-1947; and photographs depicting unknown Jewish families and school children probably in Lwow in the 1930s.

Douglas Smith collection

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Douglas Smith document collection