Denker and Kleiner family collection

Identifier: irn155269
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn155269

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Al Kleiner and his daughters Elaine Kleiner Maltzman, Susan Kleiner Perlman, and Janet Kleiner Rosenblatt.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a doctor's bag relating to the experiences of Josef Kleiner before and during the Holocaust in Poland which he, his wife Jocheved, and their son Adolf (later Al) survived by living in hiding and also photographs relating to the experiences of the Denker and Kleiner families in Budzanoff, Poland, before and after the war.

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Denker and Kleiner family photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn155270
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains six copy print photographs relating to the experiences of the Denker and Kleiner families in Budzanoff, Poland, before and after the war.
Medical bag used by a Jewish Polish man while living in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn79639
- English
- 1939-1946
- Updated 1 year ago
Leather doctor's satchel used by Josef Kleiner before and during the war when he lived in hiding with family in various places in Poland. Josef, his wife Jocheved, and 12 year old son Adolf were living in Budzanow (Budaniv, Ukraine) when Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. By 1942, the Germans were conducting large scale deportations to concentration camps. The Kleiner family went into hiding in 1942, aided by different people who hid them in their attics and cellars. In 1944, the region was liberated by Soviet troops. Josef passed away soon after the war as a result of surgery t...

Denker and Kleiner family collection

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Denker and Kleiner family photographs

Medical bag used by a Jewish Polish man while living in hiding