Add to the record; recommend additional information to ICP and USHMM staff.
[Mara Vishniac’s Latvian passport]
Mara Vishniac Kohn
Object Name
Vitrine:07.13
Vitrine:07.11 (facsimile)
Vitrine:07.12 (facsimile)
Date1932
Label Text
Roman Vishniac obtained Latvian citizenship following his marriage to Luta Bagg in 1920. This status provided some protection from increasingly restrictive antisemitic laws that deprived German Jews of citizenship. As citizens of another state residing in Germany, the Vishniacs were still entitled to some rights of which German Jews were deprived. Their Latvian citizenship also facilitated the Vishniac family’s emigration from Germany to Sweden in 1939, and their subsequent move to the U.S. in 1940.
Medium
Gelatin silver print; passport book;
Dimensions
Paper: 6 x 4 in. (15.2 x 10.2 cm)
Location
place taken Latvia
Credit Line
Collection Mara Vishniac Kohn
Accession Numbermvk.e.2.2011
Copyright
© Mara Vishniac Kohn
Visitor Feedback
Please use this form to provide us with any information about our catalog. For example, do you recognize someone in a photograph? Can you add to our knowledge about this item? Have we made a mistake of any kind? We want to hear from you.