BEDZIN GHETTO IDENTITY PHOTOGRAPHS : CIRCA 5000 ID PHOTOS OF GHETTO INHABITANTS, WITH A NAME INDEX. (ID: 30995)
Authorship or Source:
- U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library.
- Cymbler, Jeffrey.
Year:
1994
Title or Main Description:
BEDZIN GHETTO IDENTITY PHOTOGRAPHS : CIRCA 5000 ID PHOTOS OF GHETTO INHABITANTS, WITH A NAME INDEX.
Place Published or Holding Institution:
[Washington, D.C. : USHMM Library]
Description:
- 2 v. (unpaginated) : ill. ; 29 cm.
- Number of Names or Other Entries-- Approx. 5000.
Type of Work:
Bound photocopies
Alternate or Series Title:
- Bedzin Ghetto.
- Faces of Zaglembia.
Museum or Other Institution Holdings:
USHMM Library: Memorial Books DS134.66.B43 F33 1994, v. 1-2.
Provenance:
Bound photocopies of materials obtained by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Library staff from Mr. Jeffrey K. Cymbler of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc. of New York. According to Mr. Cymbler, these photographs were taken from the confiscated ID cards of inhabitants of the Bedzin (Bendsburg) Ghetto, which was liquidated in 1943. N.B. Yad Vashem's Photo Archive in Jerusalem holds the original collection of these photographs.
Keywords:
- Jewish ghettos --Poland --Bedzin --Registers.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) --Poland --Bedzin --Registers.
- Jews --Poland --Bedzin --Registers.
- Jews --Poland --Bedzin --Portraits.
- Identification photographs --Poland --Bedzin.
- Memorial books (Holocaust) --Poland --Bedzin.
- [Additional Geographic Keywords: Bendin, Bentschen, Bendzin, Bendsburg]
Abstract:
- Bound photocopies of photographs of c. 5000 Jews interned in the Bedzin Ghetto with accompanying name index. Volume 1 contains an alphabetical name index listing of photographs found in volume 2. Name index entries include birthdate and place, address, and sometimes occupation.
- NOTE WELL: The photocopied portraits reproduced in this work are also readily available in far better resolution by searching Yad Vashem's "Photos Archive" [sic] catalog online at http://collections1.yadvashem.org/search.asp?lang=ENG&rsvr=7 (Last Accessed: 2 February 2017).
Language and Other Notes:
- Text in German and English.
- Spine title: Bedzin Ghetto.
- Incomplete contents: v. 1. [Index] -- v. 2. [ID cards confiscated from Bedzin Ghetto residents].
- Vol. 1 (photo section) incomplete: Some names beginning with "L" lacking.
- Photocopies of original photos from Yad Vashem Photo Archives.
- Similar in scope to the published work: Ben-Tov, Arieh. Faces of Zaglembia : 4700 passport photos of Zaglembie Jews, found in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and brought to Israel in 1980 by Dr. Arieh Ben-Tov. ([Israel? : s.n., 1983?]).
Resource Center Cataloging Notes:
Former Q&A Name Lists Database File Number-- BP0522