Mordka Knopf photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Mordka Knopf
Biographical History
Mordka Knopf (1921-2011) was born on August 5, 1921 in Zdunska Wola, Poland to Mendel Nachum Knopf and Brana Rachel Knopf (nee Russak). Mordka had two brothers, Abraham and Simon Knopf, and a sister, Dorka (Dora) Knopf. Mordka survived the Holocaust and immigrated to the United States. He married Gertrude Knopf and they had a son, Fred Knopf. Mordka Knopf died on June 18, 2011.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Mordka Knopf donated the Mordka Knopf photograph collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
Scope and Content
Contains seven photographs of Knopf family members dating from 1931 to 1973. Included in the collection are images of Brana Rachel Knopf, Cypora Jedwab, Mendel Nachum Knopf, Abraham Knopf, Dorka Knopf, and Simon Knopf. Also contains a photograph of a Torah scroll on exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, N.Y. The photograph is dated 1978.
System of Arrangement
The Mordka Knopf photograph collection is arranged in chronological order.
People
- Knopf, Mendel Nachum.
- Knopf, Abraham.
- Knopf family.
- Knopf, Simon.
- Knopf, Dorka.
- Knopf, Mordka, 1921-2011.
- Jedwab, Cypora.
- Knopf, Brana Rachel.
Subjects
- Holocaust victims.
- Children.
- Poland.
- Jews--Poland.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
- Families.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.