Joe Karpowski collection
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joe Karpowski
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Joe Karpowski.
Scope and Content
Contains three photographs pertaining to the donor's experiences in an orphanage in a Chateau at Bours outside of Marseille, France, run by the French government. The donor survivied the war in Russia living in Kazakstan and then was sent to children's home affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. He tried to immigrate to Palestine on the Exodus but was sent back to Germany and eventually immigrated to the United States.
Corporate Bodies
- World Hashomer Hatzair
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.
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