Mendel and Helen Polak papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mendel and Helen Polak
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2009 by Mendel and Helen Polak
Scope and Content
Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence relating to the Fuchs and Polak families of Wulchovce (Vilkovtsy), 133 km WSW of Chernowitz, and Solotvina, 157 km WSW of Chernowitz. Helene Fuchs and her sisters Sara and Rachel were taken to Kolomyja ghetto in August 1941; in April 1943 they were taken to Munkac labor camp, and in April 1944 they were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In October 1944 they were transferred to Gelsenkirchen, and later to Sommerda, both subcamps of Buchenwald. The Fuchs sisters were liberated after a death march. Helen met Mendel in her hometown and the two left for a DP camp Marktredwitz in Germany.
Genre
- Document
- Letters.
- Photographs.