Fuchs and Buchbinder families collection

Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Sarah Fuchs and Moishe Buchbinder before, during and after the Holocaust. Prewar images of the Buchbinder family in Navaselicza, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine], post-war documents including Sarah and Moishe’s Ketubah (Jewish marriage certificate), pre-war images of the Fuchs family in Irholcz, Czechoslovakia [present day Ukraine]. Moishe fled to the Soviet occupied territories where he was arrested and deported to a Siberian prison and later was recruited as a soldier for a Soviet-Czech unit through the end of the War. Sarah was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, transferred to the subcamps of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and eventually liberated by the Russians in Czechoslovakia.