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Amercian Ambassador visting the Fürth DP camp
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45782
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
- Date
- 1946
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1946
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, outdoor scene. Special ambassador for US President Truman visiting the Camp at Fuerth displaced persons camp. Men in dark suits, walking towards the camera, one is looking to the left, to the barracks. One man next to a door wearing a white armband. Trees in background. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2001.17.08
- Name Access
- Kroo, Emil
- Places
- Fuerth, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Memorial tombstone
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45783
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 4 in. x W: 5 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Language
- Hebrew
- Notes
- b&w, oudoor scene. Two men at tombstone first placed in camp, now in Jewish cemetary of Fuerth. Erected to commemorate the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. Man on left wearing white coat, man on right in dark suit. Building in background. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2001.17.09
- Name Access
- Kroo, Emil
- Places
- Fuerth, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
Special ambassador of President Truman with Colonel Cummings and Emil Kroo
https://www.cjhn.ca/link/cjhn45784
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7 in. x W: 4 in.
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Type
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper ; Ht: 7 in. x W: 4 in.
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Physical Condition
- Good
- Notes
- b&w with white border, portrait of the special ambassador of President Harry Truman, who was visiting the refugee camp at Fuerth and met with the Camp Director Colonel Cummings and Emil Kroo. Narrative: Donor Emil Kroo is a Holocaust survivor originally from Munkacz (Czech Republic). Emil was in terned in a slave labour cmap in Hungary until 1944. He later met his wife Rosa Magien in Romania. After the war they were in a displaced persons camp in Fürth, Germany. Emil Kroo was the Vice-President of the Central Committee of liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany. They immigrated to New York in 1950 before settling in Montreal.
- Accession No.
- 2001.17.11
- Name Access
- Kroo, Emil
- Places
- Fuerth, Germany, Europe
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
Images
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