Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection

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

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn61063

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.

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Josepha Lanzinger collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn36417
- English
- 1929-1959
- folder oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Consists of material related to the experiences of Josepha (Josefa, Josefine) Lanzinger, born in Augsburg in 1929. Includes a 1959 reissue of her birth certificate, a 1946 certificate on completion of an apprenticeship in Würzburg, a November 1946 report card, a small photograph of Josepha, and two photographic negatives, one of a small girl, one of a group of people, significance unknown. The donor believes that Josepha was hidden in a convent during the Holocaust.
Oral history interview with Philip Schechter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn74814
- English
- 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
- Updated 8 months ago
Oral history interview with Jean Schechter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn74815
- English
- 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
- Updated 8 months ago
Oral history interview with Barbara Cohen
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn74816
- English
- 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
- Updated 8 months ago
Pencil portrait of a former Jewish Polish hidden child done in DP camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86019
- English
- overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Llifelike pencil portrait of 4 year old Basha Schaechter done in 1946 when she lived in Stuttgart displaced persons camp with her parents, Filip and Janina. Basha was born in September 1941 in Bukaczowce, Poland, where her parents were living under false papers as Christians, Frank and Janina Rogalski. Just before Basha's birth, the village, which was in Soviet territory, was occupied by German troops. The family fled to a village near Krakow. Around summer 1942, their landlord said he knew they were Jewish, and that he would not report them, but they must leave. They decided it was safer t...
Child's blue striped sweater vest worn by a former hidden child on her arrival to the US
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86030
- English
- overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Blue striped knit vest worn by 4 year old Basha Schaechter when she arrived in New York in May 1946 on the SS Marine Flasher. Basha was born in September 1941 to Filip and Janina, who were living under false papers as Christians, Frank and Janina Rogalski. Just before Basha's birth, the village, which was in Soviet territory, was occupied by German troops. The family fled to a village near Krakow. Around summer 1942, their landlord said he knew they were Jewish, and that he would not report them, but they must leave. They decided it was safer to separate, since Jean and Basha, both blue-eye...

Barbara Schechter Cohen family collection

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Josepha Lanzinger collection

Oral history interview with Philip Schechter

Oral history interview with Jean Schechter

Oral history interview with Barbara Cohen

Pencil portrait of a former Jewish Polish hidden child done in DP camp

Child's blue striped sweater vest worn by a former hidden child on her arrival to the US