Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz photograph collection
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Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz photograph collection
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Collection of nine photographs documenting the donor's stay in"Kibbutz Buchenwald" a Zionist collective started by a group of survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In July 1945 the kibbutz was moved to Geringshof, the site of the pre-war Jewish agricultural school.
Itka (Yehudit) survived the Łódź ghetto, where she lost her parents. In September 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. From there she was transferred to Guben concentration camp and later to Bergen Belsen concentration camp, where she was liberated on April 15, 1945.