Szlezyngier-Wiernik family photographs

Identifier

irn514842

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2007.420

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514842

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Benjamin and Hanka Schlesinger donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Aug. 1997.

Scope and Content

Consists of 13 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Szlezyngier family of Wojkowice, Poland, and the Wiernik family of Sosnowiec, Poland. Benjamin Szlezyngier and Chana (Hanka) Wiernik both spent the war in various labor camps and survived death marches. They married in Cyprus and emigrated to Palestine in 1946.

Genre

Document
Photographs.

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