Photograph
Weinschenker Family in a Train Car
| The Weinschenker family poses for a portrait in a train car. From left to right are an unidentified man, an unidentified woman, Frieda Weinschenker (sitting in the doorway of the train car), her mother Klara Weinschenker, her father Chaim Weinschenker (standing in front of Klara) and her brother Milo Weinschenker. They are on their way to Bremerhaven, Germany, to sail to the United States. |
| Image ID: | 57493 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1947 |
| Creator Name: | Sorrin, Saul |
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| Collection Name: | Wisconsin survivors of the Holocaust. Interviews and photographs, circa 1939-circa 1945, 1974-1975, 1980-1981 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | PH 3187.20.7 |
| Original Dimensions: | 35mm |
| Weinschenker family identified by Frieda Weinschenker Tabak. See also Image ID: 57490 for more information about the Weinschenker family. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors of the Holocaust Interviews project. Sorrin, born in New York in 1919, applied in 1940 for a position with the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA). He worked with Holocaust survivors as a supply officer for UNRAA team 560 at the Displaced Persons camp Neu Freimann Siedlung in Germany and later, at General Dwight D. Eisenhower's recommendation, Sorrin became the Area Director of the International Refugee Organization based at the Wolfratshausen DP camp in Bad Kissingen. |
| Clothing and dress |
| Dresses |
| Children |
| Family |
| Holocaust survivors |
| Men |
| Outdoor photography |
| Refugees |
| Women |
| Railroad cars |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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