Wanda Lomazow papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Wanda Lomazow
Biographical History
Wanda Neumark (Neimark) was born in Łódź, Poland, in 1919 to Ewa and Salomon Neumark. She had two younger sisters, Hala, (later Helen Fagin) born in 1922, and Teresa, born in 1930. They were raised in Radomsko. In September 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland. The Jewish population of Radomsko were confined to a ghetto. Wanda escaped the ghetto with the help of Henryk Wroblewski. She assumed a non-Jewish alias, Natalia Władysława Drozdowska. She was living in Busko-Zdrój when the city was liberated in January 1945 by Soviet forces. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. She learned that her parents were deported and murdered in Treblinka killing center in September 1942. Wanda and her sisters left for Austria. Wanda worked for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Wels and Badgstein displaced persons camps. In June 1946, Wanda married a Jewish American soldier Jacob Lomazow (1917-2012) and, in October, immigrated to the United States. Wanda, 67, passed away in 1986.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Steven M. Lomazow
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Helen Fagin
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Steven Lomazow and Helen Fagin donated the Wanda Lomazow papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 and 1990. The accessions formerly cataloged as 1990.137 and 1990.299 have been incorporated into this collection.
Scope and Content
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 the United States.
System of Arrangement
The Wanda Lomazow papers are arranged as a single series: I. Wanda Lomazow papers, approximately 1942-1946
People
- Wanda Lomazow
Subjects
- Radomsko (Poland)
- Badgastein (Austria)
- Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- United States--Emigration and immigration--20th century.
- Jewish refugees--Austria.
- Jewish families--Poland--Radomsko.
- Wels (Austria)
- Warsaw (Poland)
Genre
- Photographs.
- Document