Номер объектаM2017/021:009
ОписаниеThis is a black and white photograph donated by Holocaust survivor, Jack Meister. It was taken in 1949 in Switzerland, on the day Jack departed for Australia; he is depicted kneeling next to suitcase in the front row. In the four years prior to this, Jack was living in Basel at a home for Jewish children orphaned in the Holocaust.
Jack was born in Kielce, Poland in 1928. He was 11 years old when the Nazi’s occupation began and his childhood and education ended. In 1941, his family was sent to the Kielce ghetto. As a strong, able bodied 13 year old, Jack was put to work helping on building sites, cleaning sewers and removing headstones from Jewish graves to reuse as footpaths. When the ghetto was liquidated in 1942, Jack was at work; he returned to find his family gone. To this day, he does not know what happened to them.
Jack was transported to Radom labour camp and year later to Auschwitz where he was tattooed with number B488, he was then sent to Buna concentration camp. Surviving a march to Buchenwald in late 1944, Jack was liberated at the camp by American troops in April 1945. Following liberation, he recovered at an orthodox Jewish home for children in Basel, Switzerland. He immigrated to Australia in 1949.
Jack was born in Kielce, Poland in 1928. He was 11 years old when the Nazi’s occupation began and his childhood and education ended. In 1941, his family was sent to the Kielce ghetto. As a strong, able bodied 13 year old, Jack was put to work helping on building sites, cleaning sewers and removing headstones from Jewish graves to reuse as footpaths. When the ghetto was liquidated in 1942, Jack was at work; he returned to find his family gone. To this day, he does not know what happened to them.
Jack was transported to Radom labour camp and year later to Auschwitz where he was tattooed with number B488, he was then sent to Buna concentration camp. Surviving a march to Buchenwald in late 1944, Jack was liberated at the camp by American troops in April 1945. Following liberation, he recovered at an orthodox Jewish home for children in Basel, Switzerland. He immigrated to Australia in 1949.
Дата 1945 - 1949
Темаloss, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Buchenwald concentration camp, survival, liberation, immigration, Holocaust
Наименованиеphotographs
Материалphotographic emulsion, paper, paper
Размерность
- width: 134.00 mm
height: 84.00 mm
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Jack Meister