Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection

Identifier
irn61063
Language of Description
English
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Barbara Schechter Cohen, the daughter of Philip and Jean Hirsch Schechter.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a pencil portrait, a knitted vest, documents, photographs, and oral histories relating to the experiences of Basha Schachter and her parents Filip and Janina during the Holocaust in Poland and Germany when they lived in hiding under assumed identities, and after the Holocaust in displaced persons camps in Germany.

Genre

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.