Description
Object description
Collection of original and copy prints depicting life of Jewish community in Piotrków Trybunalski in Poland prior to the Second World War, portraits of the Piotrków Ghetto's inhabitants during the war and life in Piotrków after the war.
Collection features:
Pre-war period:
1. Sala Rosenstein-Blumsztajn, Benjamin Goldszmid, his wife Nacha and daughter Salusia in Piotrków street, 1937.
2. A girl class from Piotrków's school during a visit to the salt mines at Wieliczka, 14 June 1927.
Second World War:
3. Portrait of Henryk (Hershele) Goldhersz with New Year dedication to another Henryk, dated 22 September 1941.
4. Portrait of Mala with dedication to Henryk, 24 July 1942.
5. Portrait of Aron Hipszer and his wife, taken in Piotrków Ghetto.
6. A girl named Rachela and unknown young man in Piotrków Ghetto.
7. Two girls, Szlamowicz and Landa (of the Tolca family) in Garncarska Street in Piotrków Ghetto.
8. Frymcia Zauer and Fela Fisz (who also lived in Garncarska Street) in the Ghetto.
9. Portrait of a young man named Moniek with dedication to Henryk, taken in Piotrków Ghetto, 5 July 1942.
10. Group photograph taken in the Ghetto, right to left - Chaim and Rumka Żarnowiecki, Moniek, Mania Freiberger, Róża Freiber-Żarnowiecka and her husband, Abram Żarnowiecki.
11. Lola Steinberg, Ester Sherman and Hanka Flaks in the Ghetto.
After the war:
13. Motek Sztajnberg, Julian Szmulewicz and Josef Breiberg in Piotrków a few days after its liberation, late January 1945. Sztajnberg was killed in 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence; Szmulewicz was a member of a resistance unit.
14. A group photograph of members of the Bund from Piotrków in Frankfurt, 1946. Recognised individuals - Kalman Sosnowski and Karol Salomonowicz.
15. Yakov Leber in the Haganah in Megido, 1948.
16. Dr Zygmunt Tenenbaum, the Head of the after-war Jewish Congregation of Piotrków in Auschwitz crematorium, 1946.
17. Two images of burnt out synagogue in Piotrków.
18. Two colour images of Aurumtche Herlikowicz (Holocaust survivor from Piotrków) with his three sons taken on his 100th birhday, July 1986.
19. Three images of Ben Giladi and group of his friends visiting Treblinka in April 1993.
20. Image of Roman Hipsze, the last Jew of Piotrków, with Oleg Grynstein, the head of the Jewish Congregation of Łódź, at the mass grave monument - Jewish cemetery at Piotrków, 1984.
There is also a selection of newspaper cuttings with very similar content as the photographs.
Physical description
Set of prints, original and copies, black and white and colour, cut out and cropped; and set of newspaper cuttings.