Uszer Kaszemacher and Szyja Wolnowicz dancing

1 image

Held by: Montreal Holocaust Museum via Canadian Jewish Heritage Network (incl. Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives)
Dates: [Later than 1945] (indexed as 1945)
Level: item
Scope & content: B&W photograph with border. Indoors. Uszer Kaszemacher and Szyja Wolnowicz are dancing. Narrative: Uszer Hersz Kaszemacher, also known as Henric Kasmacher, was born on 1913-04-05 in Parczew (Poland). He married Chaja Sura Bajwelcwajg, born 1915-05-19 in Warsaw (Poland). They had two children, Jacques born in 1935 and Jeannine, born in 1937. In 1940, Henri Kasmacher was a driver in the French army. He was captured by the German armed forces in Saint-Die-des-Vosges (France) and was deported to the forced labour camp of Brunswiek, a subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp (Germany). In 1943, Chaja Bajwelcwajg was arrested and interned at the Drancy transit camp (France). She died in Drancy on 1943-09-02. Henri Kasmacher survived the war and came back to France and remarried to Ida Wolnowicz. Their children survived in hiding.
In the picture: Chair Couple Curtain Dance Dress Flower Indoor Event Man Party Portrait Suit Table Tablecloth Wedding Guest Window WomanTagged automatically by a vision model; may contain mistakes.
Location: No place found in this description yet.
Suggest location

More details

Extent: Photograph : Paper : printed : Paper : B&W ; Ht: 17,9 cm x W: 12,8 cm
Genre / form: graphic material
Format: Photograph
Text in the image: cjhn.caRead automatically; may contain mistakes.
Harvested: 2026-10-19T03:21:16Z · source datestamp n/a · andornot

As harvested (andornot)