Wanda Lomazow collection

Identifier: irn162662
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 and 1990 by Helen Fagin and Steven Lomazow, the sister and son of Wanda Lomazow.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of two pieces of Łódź ghetto scrip, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Wanda Lomazow during the Holocaust when she lived under a false identity and after the Holocaust when she worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Wels and Badgstein displaced persons camps, married Jacob Lomazow, and emigrated to the United States.

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Wanda Lomazow papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn162018
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The Wanda Lomazow papers consist of identification papers under Wanda Lomazow's married name, maiden name, and false identity; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) employment certificates in Wanda Lomazow's maiden name and false identity; travel permits for Wanda and Jacob Lomazow; the Lomazows' marriage certificate; and a photograph of Wanda Lomazow documenting Wanda Lomazow's survival of the Holocaust under a false identity, her postwar work for the UNRRA at the Wels and Bad Gastein displaced persons camps, her marriage to Jacob Lomazow, and her immigration to t...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, owned by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn905
- English
- overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
20 (zwanzig) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto acquired by Wanda Neumark. The Germans used ghettos to segregate and control the Jewish population. All currency and valuables were confiscated and a system of scrip or Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto was implemented. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Wanda, 20, her parents Salomon and Ewa, and her younger sisters Hela and Teresa were confined to the Radomsko ghetto. Wanda escaped with the help of Henryk Wroblewski and assumed a non-Jewish identity as Natalia Władysława Drozdowska. Her parents...
Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, owned by a Polish Jewish survivor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn906
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto acquired by Wanda Neumark. The Germans used ghettos to segregate and control the Jewish population. All currency and valuables were confiscated and, in Łódź, a system of scrip or Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto was implemented. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Wanda, 20, her parents Salomon and Ewa, and her younger sisters Hela and Teresa were confined to the Radomsko ghetto. Wanda escaped with the help of Henryk Wroblewski and assumed a non-Jewish identity as Natalia Władysława Drozdowska. Her p...

Wanda Lomazow collection

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Wanda Lomazow papers

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, owned by a Polish Jewish survivor

Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, owned by a Polish Jewish survivor