Margareta Kligert papers

Identifier
irn39840
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2009.352.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Russian
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Alfred Majzner was born in Kalisz, Poland, in 1887. He was married to Maria-Ruth Tastl, who was from Vienna. They had two children, Edyta (Dita) and Teodor (Todek). Maria-Ruth died of fever soon after Teodor was born in 1918. His second marriage was to Bronislawa. They had a daughter, Lucyna (Lucia), in 1922. Alfred was an engineer in Krakow. In 1938, he bought a plot of land and built a second house in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Teodor went to London to study. During the war, he would join the RAF, but he never returned to Poland. Edyta went to Vienna and Brussels, Belgium, to study fine art. After the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Alfred, Bronislawa, and Lucia fled east to the Russian-occupied part of Poland. Majzner was assigned an apartment in Białystok, Poland, on January 25, 1940; in March 1941, he was in Archangelsk, Russia. The family was later deported, with the other Jews in the region, to Chkalov, Kazakhstan, where Alfred, 55, died in 1942.

Bronislawa Majzner was married to Alfred Majzner, around 1920. Majzner was her second husband; her first husband, Fredek, was deceased. Majzner was recently widowed, with 2 young children, Dita and Teodor. Bronislawa and Alfred had a daughter named Lucyna (Lucia) in 1922. She owned her own glove shop and Alfred was an engineer in Krakow. In 1938-1939, he bought a plot and built a house for the family in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, Bronislawa, Alfred, and Lucia fled east to the Russian-occupied part of Poland. They were assigned an apartment in Białystok, Poland, on January 25, 1940. The family was later deported, with the other Jews in the region, to Chkalov, Kazakhstan, where Alfred died in 1942, aged 55. After the war, in 1946, Bronislawa and Lucia were awarded title to the house in Piotrków Trybunalski.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Margareta Kligert

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Margareta Kligert

Scope and Content

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).

People

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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.