Zehava Epstein collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Zehava Epstein
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Zehava Epstein.
Scope and Content
Collection photographs and identification cards documenting the experience of Zehava and Jehoshua Epstein [donor and husband] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The collection includes identification cards issued to them in Poppendorf Displaced Persons camp stating that they were on board the Exodus 1947 and forced to return to Germany from Haifa. Identification photos of each, post-war photographs with friends and family dated 1946-1947 and a photo of Zehava Epstein taken in Łódź, Poland, dated 1941. The couple met while on board the Exodus.
Corporate Bodies
- Exodus 1947 (Ship)
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
- Identification cards.