Yaakov Borenstein collection
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Yaakov Borenstein
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Yaakov Borenstein.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a prayer-book found by Marguit Loewy Borenstein [donor's mother] in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and a photograph of Marguit and her sister, Terka Loewy (b. 1928), taken in Nové Město, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the summer of 1945 soon after their liberation from Auschwitz.
People
- Loewy, Terka.
- Loewy, Marguit.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Poland--Oświęcim.
Genre
- Prayer-books.
- Photographs.
- Document