Gross family photograph

Identifier
irn45625
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.75.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn45625

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jan T. Gross

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Professor Jan Gross.

Scope and Content

Contains a group portrait photograph of the Gross family during a summer trip to Zakopane, Poland, dated c. 1935. Seated from left are Adolf Gross (donor's paternal grandfather) a member of the Austrian Parliament from 1907-1914; Augusta Gross (donor's paternal grandmother) who perished in the Ravensbrück concentration camp; Max Gross (donor's paternal uncle) who survived in hiding. In the back row on the left is Dr. Ludwig Gross, who reached the US in 1940 and became a well known oncologist and Zygmunt Gross (donor's father) a lawyer and activist in the Polish Socialist Party [PPS], who survived on false papers in Warsaw with the help of PPS.

Genre

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