Ruth Wottitzky Binder photographs

Identifier
irn521686
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.440.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521686

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Ruth Wottitzky Binder donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on Aug. 2, 1996

Scope and Content

Contains 98 pre-World War II and wartime photographs of the extended family of Ruth Wottizky Binder. Included are photographs of the Weigl, Spaeth, Klepetar, Wottizky, and Goldstein families who lived in Buchlovice, Moravia, and in Sevetin, Olomouc, and Tabor, Czechoslovakia. The Wottizky family managed to emigrate to the United States in 1939. The families remaining in Europe were deported to Theresienstadt and to Auschwitz; only three people survived the war.

People

  • Spaeth family.
  • Klepetar family.
  • Goldstein family.
  • Weigl family.
  • Wottizky family.

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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