Passover postcard

Identifier
irn513278
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.292.1
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513278

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The postcard was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Sara Dumesh.

Scope and Content

The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names unknown and Lea Lemchen, age 7, [2nd row on the right] were killed in the Rīga ghetto in 1941. Bluma Sandler, age 4, [donor's cousin / seated on the right] Sara Cherfas, age 3 1/2, [donor / seated in the center] and Ester Wishnevskaya, age 7 [donor's father's cousin / standing in the center] survived by escaping from Latvia to Russia with their parents.

People

  • Sandler, Bluma.
  • Wishnevskaya, Ester.
  • Dumesh, Sara.
  • Lemchen, Lea.

Subjects

  • Passover.
  • Jewish children in the Holocaust--Latvia--Rīga.

Genre

  • Document
  • Photographic postcards.
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