"Old Glory is Their Flag Now"

Identifier

irn559763

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2017.183.1

Level of Description

Item

Languages

English
Yiddish

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn559763

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Bernard and Ruth DeHovitz

The photograph was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017 by Dr. and Mrs. Bernard and Ruth DeHovitz.

Scope and Content

Copy print: black and white image of children standing outside in front of Grant’s Tomb in New York with American flag raised on flagpole in background; pasted on verso are captions in English and Yiddish, stamped “Photo by Al Puhn”; Caption titled “Old Glory is their flag now” identifying the children as “…survivors of Nazi concentration camps from the nearby Reception Shelter of United Service for New Americans at the Hotel Marseilles…”

System of Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series.

Subjects

United States--Emigration and immigration.
Children.
Holocaust survivors.

Genre

Photograph.
Document

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.