Morris Zimmerman in Belgium
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Date
c.1946
Description
Morris Zimmerman in Belgium. Zimmerman was born to a Jewish family in Działoszyn, Poland on February 15, 1924. During the Second World War, Morris was sent first to Częstochowa Ghetto, and then to Buchenwald concentration camp. As the only survivor of his family (the rest having died at Treblinka extermination camp), he decided to head to Belgium after the war. During his five years in Belgium, Zimmerman worked as a tailor, met his wife Frieda Berkowitz (who he married in 1948), and had a daughter in 1949 who tragically died within the year. In 1950, exhausted by the suffering and death they endured in Europe, the couple immigrated to the United States where they built a family.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
Postwar United States
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Immigration, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
Morris Zimmerman Family Private Collection
Source
Courtesy of Morris Zimmerman's Family
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