Photo of Alla Oppenheim

Black-and-white photo: Two teenage girls, one of whom is named Alla Oppenheim, stand for a portrait. They wear white shirts and black pinafores, and the girl on the right has a bows in her hair.

Alla Opphenheim and another student from Peterswald Kinderheim.

Thick yellowing paper with handwritten Yiddish text in blue ink.

Yiddish written on the back of the photograph.

Alla Oppenheim was one of the students at the Peterswald Kinderheim whose testimony was recorded by Professor Shia Moser. She was twelve years old when the Holocaust ended in 1945. Professor Moser received this photograph from Alla of herself and another student. On the back of the photograph, Alla wrote: "For Prof Moser from Alla Oppenheim, Pietreliese 'Kinderheiu' 8 July.”

Donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre by Shia Moser. 1993.037.019

Photo of Alla Oppenheim

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