Zygmunt Wieczorek collection

Identifier

irn149632

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

2015.215.1

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn149632

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Donna Twardowski

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Donna Twardowski.

Scope and Content

Contains documents, photographs, identity cards, letters, and immigration paperwork for Zygmunt Wieczorek (b. 27 November 1912 in Argemunde, Berlin) who lived in Drążek, Poland. A Roman Catholic who served in the Polish military in Poznan, Wieczorek was captured an interned as a POW in forced labor at Probst shoe factory in Hettstedt, Germany. Includes a postwar letter from the factory owner trying to obtain assistance and detailing conditions in the Soviet Zone in Germany.

Subjects

Forced labor--Germany.

Genre

Document
Letters.
Photographs.
Identity cards.

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.