Authors

Object ID

2021.1.50

Object Name

Card

Date

1945

Files

Download

Download Full Text (335 KB)

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

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

Share

COinS
 

Rights Statement

In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted.
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.