In 1938, Leah Grochowska (later Gutman) left her home in Bialystok, Poland, to join her brother in Palestine. In 2008, she donated a collection of photographs and other items to the Museum. As Suzy Snyder explains, these items help to document the life of one Jewish community in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust.
Chief Acquisitions Curator Judith Cohen shares photographs Eva Weinberger Cohen's children donated to the Museum after their mother's death. Eva had never spoken about her life before she came to the United States. Find out what Eva's children were able to discover and why the photos are so significant.
In 1938, Leon Marokus came to the United States from Lvov, Poland. His plans to have his wife and daughters join him were disrupted by World War II. Suzy Snyder shares a collection of letters that document both Leon's efforts to bring his family to the United States from 1938 through 1941 and his search after the war for his younger daughter Pola, who was believed to have survived the Holocaust.
In 1934, Jewish American writer Robert Gessner traveled to Europe and the Middle East, where he filmed at least ten reels documenting Jewish life. Film archivist Lindsay Zarwell shares some of the images he captured and explains how our colleagues at Colorlab and Video and Film Solutions helped us restore and preserve this very rare footage.
Josef Kohout, more widely known as Heinz Heger, was the subject of The Men with the Pink Triangle, the first published account of a gay survivor of the Nazi camps.
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