Samuel Herskovitz and Moshe Lovinger, former victims of TB, ...

Item ID	23612
Title	Samuel Herskovitz and Moshe Lovinger, former victims of TB, underwent vocational training for their chosen professions and permanently resettled in Norway, where each lead successful lives.
Reference Code	NY_12715
Description	Samuel Herskovitz, left, professional photographer, and Moshe Lovinger, JDC trained optician, both earning their living in their new homeland. Mr. Herskovitz arrived in Germany after spending the war in a Hungarian concentration camp, where he contracted tuberculosis. He went under intensive care at a JDC sanatorium, with his health restored, he went back to continue the photography work started before the war. Mr. Lovinger, a native of Budapest, was orphaned before he was 13. After the war in Italy, he spent three years in a JDC TB hospital; during his rehabilitation period, he learned the optician's trade. Both young men were among the members of a Norway bound transport of TB cases from DP camps and became close friends.
City / Town	Oslo	similar items
Country	Norway	similar items
Decade	1950	similar items
Photo Date Description	c.1952-1953	similar items
Photographer	Jerome Silberstein	similar items
Selected Search Code	Terra	similar items
Size	2 1/4 x 3 1/4
Format	Negative

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