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    [Lothar Leyser, Werkdorp Nieuwesluis, Wieringermeer, the Netherlands]

    Object Name
    107
    Dateca. 1938
    Label Text

    Lothar Leyser was born in Essen, Germany, in 1920. He married Alice Brigitta Rechnitz, also born in 1920, while living at the Werkdorp, where they had two daughters. Leyser, his wife, and daughters were deported from Amsterdam to Westerbork, a detention and transit camp in the Netherlands, in June 1943. On July 6, 1943, the family was sent to Sobibor extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, where all four were killed three days later, on July 9, 1943.

    Medium
    Gelatin silver print
    Dimensions
    Image: 12 x 10 in. (30.5 x 25.4 cm) Paper: 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
    Location
    place taken Nieuwesluis, Wieringermeer, The Netherlands
    Credit Line
    Gift of Mara Vishniac Kohn, 2013
    Accession Number1992.672
    Copyright
    © Mara Vishniac Kohn