Rashel and Haim Eshaya photographs
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Tal Eshaya Westman
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Tal Westman
Scope and Content
Photographs (4), consisting of images that depict Rashel and Haim Eshaya (donor's paternal grandparents) in Ruse, Bulgaria, between 1937 and 1944. Includes an identification photograph of Rashel Hasson Eshaya, dated 1937, two photographs of Haim and Rashel Eshaya, from 1937 and 1944, and a photograph of three men at a forced labor camp for Jews, in Gradeshnitsa, Bulgaria, wtih Haim Eshaya seated in the middle, 1943. Abraham Eshaya (donor's father) was born in 1947 in Bulgaria and soon after that, the Eshaya family immigrated to Israel.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Bulgaria.
- Ruse (Bulgaria)
- Jews--Bulgaria--Ruse.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Bulgaria.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.