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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
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