[Cz-L] RE: Willy Pragher Collection

Dear Florence,

Thank you for your mail and let me give an preliminary answer for you and for the other group members as well, because I think the Willy Prager Photo Collection could be an unique discovery for many of us. It was vitaliy7 (http://vitaliy7.livejournal.com/profile), the owner of the City of Chernivtsi Unofficial Page (http://vitaliy7.livejournal.com/50119.html), who attracted my attention by posting 68 pictures in his Czernowitz gallery (http://pics.livejournal.com/vitaliy7/gallery/000q9day).

So, following Vitaliy's links, I came upon the State Archives Freiburg (Germany), holding the Willy Prager Photo Collection. Willy Pragher (1908-1992) shot the pictures from a German-Romanian-AxisPower-point of view, but the pictures have a huge documentary value. It's absolutely incredible, but the collection comprises about one million (!!!) photographs, slides and negatives, covering the period 1926 - 1992. Many of these photographs have been taken in Romania, Bessarabia, Transnistria (!!!), etc. during WW2. Keeping in mind the historical importance of this collection, the State Archives Freiburg made available online a large number of the pictures. For Czernowitz pictures, please follow the following link:

https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=20946

Then open the index and the folder 1941-44. Click for all (=alle) pictures and look for picture no. W 134 Nr. 031838a, the first picture of the Czernowitz series. As I mentioned, that's a preliminary statement, as I have to study the archives catalog in-depth.

Hope, these data may be useful for you and/or other members of our group!

Best wishes!

Edgar Hauster
Veerdam 5
NL - 6663 KW Lent
Phone: +31 (24) 32 22 157
Mobile: +49 (172) 97 95 295

http://hauster.blogspot.com/

From: floheymann_at_hotmail.com
To: bconcept_at_hotmail.com
Subject: Willy Pragher Collection
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:20:33 +0300

[Moderator's note: Dr. Heyman wrote to Edgar Hauster requesting further information on the Willy Pragher collection.]
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