Yaffa Rosenthal photographs

Identifier
irn522157
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.206
Dates
1 Jan 1941 - 31 Dec 1942
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522157

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Yaffa Rosenthal

Biographical History

Yaffa Rosenthal was born of Jewish parents on Oct. 7, 1926, in Solotwina, Poland (Ukraine.) She and her family were deported to a massacre site at Kam'i︠a︡net︠s︡ʹ-Podilʹsʹkyĭ, Ukraine, but they hid from the guards and escaped. They walked to Stanislav, Ukraine, in 1941 and found a guide to take them to Hungary, but they could not stay there. Yaffa then went with her uncle to Transylvania but later choose to join her sister in Budapest, Hungary, in 1942. In 1944, Yaffa and her sister were forced into a ghetto and sent on a forced march to Germany, but Yaffa returned to Budapest and was later liberated by the Soviet Army. She emigrated to Palestine, lived there until 1959, and then emigrated to the United States.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Yaffa Rosenthal donated the photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Aug. 1990.

Scope and Content

One photograph depicts Captain Sloime Yoszef, Jr., and other men in front of a train as they were being deported to a Hungarian labor camp, and the other photograph is a modern copy enlargement of Captain Yoszef.

People

  • Yoszef, Sloime.
  • Yaffa Rosenthal

Subjects

  • World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Hungary.
  • Railroads--Hungary--1940-1950.
  • World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Hungary.

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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