Roza Krzesiwo photographs

Identifier
irn30230
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2000.431.1
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1950
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Romanian
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn30230

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Roza Krzesiwo

Biographical History

Roza Krzesiwo was born in 1915 in Darabani, Romania to baker Lejba Stoleru and his wife Sara Kohn Stoleru. She relocated to Lipkany in Bessarabia (Lipcani, Moldova) in July 1940. She left in June 1941 and made her way to an agricultural cooperative called “Kolkhoz Dzierzynski” in the Fergana region of Uzbekistan. After about a year at the kolkhoz, she moved to Shurab in the Isfara district of Tajikistan where she met her future husband, Zucher Ber Krzesiwo. The couple repatriated to Bytom, Poland in May 1946. Her father was killed in Transnistria in 1941, her mother was shot in Darabani, Romania, and her sister, Pesia Stoleru Moscowitz (b. 1910), perished with her husband and children. Her brothers, Moshe (b. 1901), Meir (b. 1905), Filip (b.1907), and Izak (b.1917), survived labor camps in Transnistria.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Roza Krzesiwo

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Roza Krzesiwo donated the Roza Krzesiwo photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.

Scope and Content

The Roza Krzesiwo photographs consist of six images depicting Roza’s brothers Izak, Meir, and Filip Stoleru in Bucharest in 1944; her husband (Zucher Ber Krzesiwo) in the “Progres” Jewish tailoring cooperative in 1946 and at a Communist Party event in 1950 in Bytom (Poland); his uncle Eli Krzesiwo in 1938 in Działoszyce (Poland) and his friend Josef Szlam in 1945 in Poland; and a Bund youth demonstration in 1946 in Katowice (Poland).

System of Arrangement

The Roza Krzesiwo photographs are arranged as a single series: I. Roza Krzesiwo photographs, 1938-1950

Subjects

  • Bytom (Poland)
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.
  • Działoszyce (Poland)
  • Bucharest (Romania)
  • Holocaust survivors--Poland--Bytom.
  • Jews--Poland--Działoszyce.
  • Katowice (Poland)
  • Jews--Romania--Darabani.

Genre

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.