Alice Fahrer papers

Identifier
irn516471
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1995.31
Dates
1 Jan 1898 - 31 Dec 1951
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn516471

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Joseph Ornstein

Biographical History

Joseph Ornstein was born in Vienna. He and his wife, Franziska, had four children, Elsa, Wily, Walter and Emy. All four later came to the United States. Joseph owned several barber shops and ladies hair dressing salons. He died in the Theresierstadt concentration camp sometime after 1943.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Alice Fahrer donated the papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995. Joseph Ornstein was her husband's grandfather.

Scope and Content

The papers consist of two studio portraits of Joseph Ornstein, one taken in 1898 and one (a copy print) printed in 1951, and a postcard send by Joseph Ornstein from Theresienstadt concentration camp to Karoline Zisdka in Vienna, Austria.

People

  • Ornstein, Joseph.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

  • Concentration camp inmates' writings--Czech Republic--Terezín (Severočeský kraj)

Genre

  • Postcards.
  • Portrait photographs.
  • Document
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