Yaffa Rosenthal photographs

Identifier
irn522164
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.212
Dates
1 Jan 1939 - 31 Dec 1939
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

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

The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Yaffa Rosenthal in 1990.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of photographs of Dicker family members taken prior to the Holocaust in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

People

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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.