Ella Lidsky photographs

Identifier
irn514356
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2003.430.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn514356

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

The copy prints were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 by Ella Cwik Lidsky.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 23 copy prints of Alexander Lidsky and Ella Cwik Lidsky's families. The original photographs were created between the 1910s and the 1940s.

People

  • Lidsky, Alexander.
  • Lidsky, Pesia.
  • Cwik, Mananna.
  • Ella Lidsky
  • Cwik, Mary.
  • Cwik family.
  • Lidsky, Ella Cwik.
  • Cwik, Leib.
  • Lidsky, Tolka.
  • Lidsky family.

Subjects

  • Jews--Lithuania--Vilnius.

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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