Alkalay family photographs
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of David Alkalay
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
David Alkalay donated the Alkalay family photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019. David Alkalay is the son of Lora Alkalay.
Scope and Content
The Alkalay family photographs consists of two photographs of members of the Alkalay family in Bulgaria. One photograph taken in Haskovo, Bulgaria, dated July 1943, depicts Lora Alkalay with two friends, Suzi and Mali, eating bread and butter given to them by Suzi’s father who worked as a baker during the war. All three girls are wearing the Jewish Star of David badge. The second photograph depicts Nissim Alkalay with his friend, Jacques Safonov, in front a Balkan building opposite the palace of the King in Sofia, Bulgaria.
System of Arrangement
The Alkalay family photographs is arranged in a single series.
People
- Safonov, Jacquies.
- Alkalay, Nissim.
- Alkalay, Lora.
Subjects
- Haskovo (Bulgaria)
- Bulgaria.
- Children.
- Jewish children.
Genre
- Document
- Photographs.