"Old Glory is Their Flag Now"
Extent and Medium
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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
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