Anna Prager photographs
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Anna F. Prager
Biographical History
Anna Friedman Prager was born as Chana Sima Frydman on January 6, 1936, in Chmielnik, Poland, to Icek and Tema Frydman. In June 1940 the Soviets expelled Tema, Icek, and Anna Frydman to Bodaybo (Bodaibo), a forced labor camp in Siberia. They were released in 1943 and migrated to Samarkand (Samarqand) in Uzbekistan. In 1945 the Frydmans immigrated illegally to Sweden and settled in Landskrona where they remained until 1949.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Anna Prager.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anna Prager (born Chana Frydman) and her family, originally of Chmielnik, Poland. Included are depictions of Anna as a child in Chmielnik, her maternal aunts and uncles, her father Ick Frydman in the Polish Army in August 1939, her family's escape to Siberia and later Uzbekistan, the Frydman and Sylman families in Kielce, Poland, on February 20, 1946, Anna and her family in in Sweden from 1946 to 1949, and Anna’s maternal grandmother and Aunt Chava.
System of Arrangement
The collection is arranged as a single series.
People
- Frydman, Tamara Sylman.
- Frydman, Icek.
- Anna F. Prager
- Frydman family.
- Prager, Anna.
- Sylman family.
- Sylman, Jacob.
Subjects
- Kielce (Poland)
- Jews--Poland--Chmielnik--1930-1940.
- School children--Sweden--Landskrona--1940-1950.
- Jewish soldiers--Poland.
- Sweden--Emigration and immigration.
- Chmielnik (Poland)
- Refugees, Jewish--Sweden--Landskrona.
- Jewish families--Poland--Chmielnik.
Genre
- Photographs.
- Portrait photographs.
- Document