Kay Nabel collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36310
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection documents the experiences of the Selinger and Lewinger families, originally of Kraków, Poland, during the Holocaust. Included are two pre-war photographic portraits of Helena and Abraham Selinger; postcards written by Wilhelm Selinger and his daughter Marilya Selinger Rysis in the Kraków ghetto addressed to Alexander Lewinger, Wilhelm’s brother-in-law, in New York, dated 1941; a note written to Krystyna Selinger (now Kay Nabel) from her sister in Kraków that was sent along with a package, dated November 3, 1941; and letters written to Kay in Germany from her husband Edward N...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36331
• English
• 1943-1944
• overall: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Yellow badge with a purple P worn by 21 year old Krystyna (Kay) Nabel, to identify her as a Polish forced laborer in Germany from 1943-1944. During the German occupation of Poland, many non-Jewish Polish people were sent to Germany as conscript labor. When Kay and her husband Edward, Polish Jews, wore these badges they were living under false identities as Polish Catholics. Soon after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Kay Selinger left her family in Krakow and fled with her future husband, Edward Nabel, to Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine] where his parents had already relocated. They married th...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36332
• English
• 1939-1945
• overall: Height: 45.000 inches (114.3 cm) | Width: 16.125 inches (40.958 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Towel used by Kay Selinger Nabel throughout the Holocaust, 1939-1945. It originally belonged to her mother, Henryka Selinger, whose initials are embroidered in one corner. Soon after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Kay left her family in Krakow and fled with her future husband, Edward Nabel, to Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine] where his parents had already relocated. They married there in June 1940. After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, they returned to Krakow to escape the anti-Jewish pogroms launched by the Germans and the local Ukrainian population. When the Krakow ghetto wa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn36333
• English
• 1941-1943
• overall: Height: 46.000 inches (116.84 cm) | Width: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Dress that belonged to Henryka Selinger who was deported in 1942 from the Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland, to Treblinka concentration camp where she was murdered. The dress was kept by a neighbor throughout the war and recovered by her daughter, Kay Nabel, after the war. Soon after Poland was occupied by Germany in September 1939, Henryka and her family were forced into the Jewish ghetto in Krakow. Kay left her family in Krakow and fled with her future husband, Edward Nabel, to Lvov (Lviv, Ukraine] where his parents had already relocated. They married there in June 1940. After Germany invad...