Szczukowski family photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Hynda Halpren donated these photographs of her father and his family to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on May 1, 1997.
Scope and Content
Consists of eight pre-war photographs of the family of Mendel and Hynda Szczukowski, originally of Łódź, Poland. Of their seven children in Poland (an eighth, Esther, emigrated to Poland in 1916), five perished during the Holocaust, as did Mendel. Hynda passed away in 1932. Also includes post-war photographs of Mojzesz Szczukowski in a displaced persons camp in Hofgeisman, Germany, participating in the sport of boxing.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.