Prewar studio portrait in Sighet of Jewish siblings Suri and Ari Deutsch, both of whom died in the Holocaust. [LCID: 48151]
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1937 studio portrait of Suri and Ari Deutsch

Prewar studio portrait in Sighet of Jewish siblings Suri and Ari Deutsch, both of whom died in the Holocaust. This photograph comes from the album of their cousin, Rosalia Dratler Roiter. Rosalia was deported to and died at Auschwitz. Sighet, Romania, 1937.


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  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Solange Dratler Lebowitz

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