Barbara Schechter Cohen family 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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74814
• English
• 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 8 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74815
• English
• 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 8 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn74816
• English
• 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
• Updated 8 months ago

• 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...

• 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...