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
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