Photograph of refugees in Sweden, ca. 1945

Identifier
irn515501
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.332.1
  • RG-09.080
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Ilse Schindler was born in upper Silesia and during the Nazi era was forced into the ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. She was sent to Annaberg labor camp and from there to Auschwitz and by the end of 1944 was sent to Ravensbrück and then to Beendorf near Magdeburg, Germany, where she worked for several months in a salt mine where parts for V2 missiles were manufactured. As the Allied troops approached, work was no longer possible and she was then shipped from one small camp to the next until liberation on May 2, 1945.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Ilse Schindler in 1990.

Scope and Content

The photograph depicts Ilse Schindler (wearing a checkered kerchief) and others anxiously awaiting their first meal minutes after their arrival in Malmö, Sweden, where they were brought after liberation on May 2, 1945, from Flensburg, Germany, (Flensborg, Denmark), as part of the Count Folke Bernadotte action.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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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.