Ungar family photographs
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Helen Finkelstein
Biographical History
Helen (Kuka) Finkelstein, nee Ungar, was born in Krakow, Poland in 1933 to Alfred and Stefania Ungar. She had one older brother named Adam. Following the German invasion of Poland, the Ungar family was deported to a concentration camp in Prokocim, Poland. Helen was eventually smuggled out of the camp, and lived with two nearby families until the end of the war. Stefania Ungar and Adam Ungar were both killed in the camp, and Alfred Ungar survived a series of concentration camps and was briefly reunited with his daughter Helen after the war. At that time, Helen went to live with an aunt in Czechoslovakia for eight years and in Germany for another year and a half before immigrating to the United States, where she rejoined her father, who had settled in Los Angeles.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Finkelstein
Helen Ungar Finkelstein donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Scope and Content
Consists of copyprints of the family of Alfred and Stefa Ungar, who lived in Krakow, Poland, with their children Adam and Kuka (now Helen). Includes pre-war copyprints of the family, copyprints of the family at the labor camp of Krakow-Prokocim, and copyprints of Alfred Ungar in his concentration camp uniform, alone and with other prisoners, after their liberation from Buchenwald. Also includes a copyprint and published article about the memory of Adam Ungar, who was remembered at the bar mitzvah of Daniel Pyser.
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Copyright Holder: Helen Finkelstein
People
- Ungar, Alfred.
- Ungar, Adam.
- Ungar, Stefania.
- Finkelstein, Helen.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kraków.
Genre
- Document