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Item ID | 23612 | |||
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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. | |||
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Reference Code | NY_12715 | |||
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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. | |||
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City / Town | Oslo | ![]() |
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Country | Norway | ![]() |
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Decade | 1950 | ![]() |
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Photo Date Description | c.1952-1953 | ![]() |
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Photographer | Jerome Silberstein | ![]() |
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Selected Search Code | Terra | ![]() |
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Size | 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 | |||
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Format | Negative |