Lidsky family photographs

Identifier
irn513654
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.316
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn513654

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Ella Lidsky

Biographical History

Ella Lidsky (born Ella Cwik) was bornin 1925 in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius , Lithuania) to Leib and Szejna Cwik. She was in school in the Soviet Union when World War II started. Her parents and six sisters perished during the Holocaust, but she and her older brother, Pinchas, who had immigrated to Palestine in the 1930s, survived. Ella graduated from Odessa Pedagogical Institute after the war and worked as an elementary school teacher in Poland and then in Israel after she immigrated in 1957. She immigrated to the United States in 1962, settled in New York City, and married Alexander Lidsky, a physician who was also a Holocaust survivor from Vilna.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Ella Lidsky donated these photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Photo Archives on Apr. 8, 2003.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two photographs: a formal picture showing the donor's father, Rebbe Leib Cwik, in a jacket and hat and the other picture of five women, one young boy, and one young girl in three hammocks.

People

  • Ella Lidsky
  • Cwik, Leib.

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.

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