Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Schachnes family in Berlin until 1938; in Warsaw between December 1938 and December 1939; and in Istanbul, Turkey and Palestine after March 1941. Erna and Abram Schachnes joined their children Boris and Wladimir in Palestine c. 1942. Wladimir and Boris fought in the War of Independence in the Givati Brigade; Wladimir Zeev Schachnes was killed in action on May 13, 1948.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Schachnes family papers