Hana Engel photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Hana Szymkiewicz Engel
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Hana Engel.
Scope and Content
Consists of two photographs: one a prewar image of Ania Szymkiewicz Engel (donor) and her mother, Regina, walking in the street in Łódź, Poland; the second an image of Hana Engel in Tel Aviv, dated 1948. Ania attended Abba Gymnasium before the war and the ghetto high school. In August 1944, she and her mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where Regina was murdered. Hana was liberated in May 1945 in Theresienstadt and in 1946 she arrived in Palestine where she was reunited with her father.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.