Izak and Rachel Herzhaft 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 Sara Tochterman
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Sara Tochterman, daughter of Izak and Rachel Tochterman.
Scope and Content
Contains photographs illustrating the experiences of Rachel Moskowitz, born in the small Carpathian town "Behutz" in Hungary/Czech area of Slovakia and Izak Herzhaft from Rutke, Poland (Galicia). Izak escaped and ended up in Budapest. Rachel moved to Budapest and both were on the Kasztner train in Bergen-Belsen then Switzerland, eventually moving to Palestine where they married.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.