Lissek family photographs

Identifier

irn514776

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2007.319

Dates

1 Jan 1949 - 31 Dec 1950

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514776

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Leon Lissek donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 30, 1997.

Scope and Content

Consists of three post-war photographs of Channa Lissek and her sons Leon, Marcel, and Jacques. The boys spent the war in hiding with the help of the OSE. The boys' father, Sam Lissek, perished in Auschwitz; one of the photographs, taken in 1950, shows Channa's second husband.

Genre

Photographs.
Document

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.