Helen Dore collection

Identifier: irn49812
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn49812

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Helen Dore. An accretion of additional materials was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by her estate.

Scope and Content

Photographic print: black and white image of Germans serving in Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliate a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; dated 1942; Lukow, Poland. Photographic postcard: black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi. The father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 – 1940; Sieradz, Poland

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- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn13543
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Tag issued upon arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Plaque
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn13544
- English
- Updated 1 year ago
Helen Dore photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn544802
- English
- 1939-1942
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains two photographs. The first, dated 1942 in Lukow, Poland, depicts members of Reserve Police Battalion 101 publicly humiliating a Jewish man by forcing him to pose in a prayer shawl in a crouching position with his hands up; the other a black and white image of German police and SS officers cutting the sidelocks of the son of a local rabbi; the father and son were reportedly hanged along with eight others soon after; inscription on verso; image dated 1939 - 1940 in Sieradz, Poland.

Helen Dore collection

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Helen Dore photographs