Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 

Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection 

folder 1 

Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, transferred to the subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and eventually liberated by the Russians in Czechoslovakia.