Chaim and Regina Hollander collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn40074
• English
• 1 sound cassette (90 min.),
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41673
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Collection of materials documenting the experiences of Chaim (Henryk) Hollander and Kajla-Rywka Miller (later Regina Hollander) [donor's parents] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Collection includes identity papers, scrip, correspondence, passports, a photo of a drawing, and an audio cassette oral history interview with Chaim Hollander

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41674
• English
• overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943 and owned by Chaim Hollander. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Chaim and his family went into hiding. In August 1942, they were deported from Sosnowiec to the Srodula ghetto. After his wife and two young daughters were deported, Chaim escaped the ghetto and lived under a false identity until he was betrayed and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41675
• English
• overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 3.120 inches (7.925 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Type 3 Auschwitz scrip, valued at .50 Reichsmark, received by Chaim Hollander when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Scrip was issued in the camps as a means of improving worker productivity. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Chaim and his family went into hiding. In August 1942, they were deported from Sosnowiec to the Srodula ghetto. After his wife and two young daughters were deported, Chaim escaped the ghetto and lived under a false identity until he was betrayed and deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in December 1943. He found Fajwal there and they were transferred tog...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn41677
• English
• overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.120 inches (5.385 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Scrip received by Chaim Hollander when he was imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Scrip was issued in the camps as a means of improving worker productivity. Chaim and his brother, Fajwal, worked in the camp printing counterfeit British money as part of Operation Bernhard. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Chaim and his family went into hiding. In August 1942, they were deported from Sosnowiec to the Srodula ghetto. After his wife and two young daughters were deported, Chaim escaped the ghetto and lived under a false identity until he was betrayed and deported to Au...