Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner collection

Identifier: irn37160
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 Museum in 2009 by Margareta Kligert, the granddaughter of Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner in Poland and as refugees in the Soviet Union before, during, and after World War II.

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Margareta Kligert papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn39840
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner. Included are photographs of Alfred and Bronislawa; a registration book, 1944; request for assignment of an apartment to Alfred in Bialystok, January 25, 1940; envelope sent from Warsaw on March 18, 1941 to Alfred Majzner in Archangelsk, USSR; a postcard addressed to Bronislawa in USSR from Lublin, Poland, dated May 10, 1945; envelope sent from British Embassy in Moscow, to Bronislawa in Kazakhstan (probably contained a letter from Todek Majzner in England).
Engraved silver cigarette case used by a Polish Jewish refugee in Russia
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn39843
- English
- 1942-1944
- overall: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cigarette case that belonged to Alfred Majzner, a Jewish engineer, who, following the 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany, fled to the Russian-occupied sector to the east. He was assigned living quarters for his family in Bialystock, Poland, on July 25, 1940. Soon after his wife and family arrived the Russians deported the Jewish inhabitants further west. Alfred died in Kazakhstan in 1942. His second wife and widow, Bronislawa, had the case decorated around 1944 with her initials, BM, and the names of their daughter, Lucia, his children from his first marriage, Dita and Todek, and her deceas...

Alfred and Bronislawa Majzner collection

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Margareta Kligert papers

Engraved silver cigarette case used by a Polish Jewish refugee in Russia