Amos and Edith Turner papers

Identifier
irn522943
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.537.1
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1940
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folders

3

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Amos and Edith Turner

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Amos and Edith Turner

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Amos Turner

The photographs were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Amos and Edith Turner. An accretion of memoirs was added to the collection in 2017. An accretion of one photograph was added to the collection in 2017.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 22 loose photographs and seven photographs mounted to a velvet cardboard backing, depicting the experiences of Ita Singer in Glembokie, Poland, and Amos Turner donors in Zawiercie, Poland, during World War II. Also includes Alexander Turner's memoirs describing his early life in Zawierce; meeting and marrying Hela [Chaja] Turner in 1924 and immigrating to Palestine in 1925, where their son Amos was born in 1926; returning to Zawierce; the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939; and the family’s ultimate deportation, Amos to a slave labor camp and Alexander and Hela to Auschwitz, where Hela was killed immediately.

People

Subjects

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.