Shana Tova Card of Holocaust Survivors from Buchenwald Concentration Camp Raising National Flag

Authors

Object ID

2021.1.50

Object Name

Card

Date

1945

Files

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Description

Folding photo card showing concentration camp survivors in front of the Israeli flag.

Information Provided by Michael D. Bulmash:

Real photograph card “On the Threshold”, survivors from Buchenwald aboard ship “Matroha” arriving in port of Haifa July 15, 1945. As Palestine at this time continues under British Mandate, they will be arrested by the British as “illegals”.

Dimensions

7 1/4 x 2 1/2"

Keywords

Buchenwald, Matroha

Subcollection

Shana Tova

Recommended Citation

"Shana Tova Card of Holocaust Survivors from Buchenwald Concentration Camp Raising National Flag" (1945). Bulmash Family Holocaust Collection. 2021.1.50.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash/1752