Roman Antoniak papers
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Roman Antoniak
Biographical History
Roman Antoniak was born in Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) on 10 May 1926. Following the German invasion of the Soviet Union, Antoniak was hired as an apprentice at the Ostdeutsche Email und Metall Werke in Lwow in January 1942, and was enrolled in the Ukrainische Hilfskomitee in October of that same year. He was arrested by the Germans at some point in 1944 and transferred by the Gestapo in Kattowitz (Katowice) to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 11 May1944. He was released in January 1945, as the camp was evacuated, and put in the Ukrainian Division. He was captured as a POW by the British Army, and in 1948, after he had been released, he went to Scotland, where he settled.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Donna Antoniak
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Donna Antoniak donated the Roman Antoniak papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
Scope and Content
The Roman Antoniak papers consists of two identification documents issued by the East German Enamel and Metal Factory and the Ukrainian support committee to Roman Antoniak of Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in 1942.
System of Arrangement
The Roman Antoniak papers is arranged in a single series.
People
- Antoniak, Roman, 1925-2010.
Subjects
- Jews--Ukraine--L'viv.
- Lviv (Ukraine)
- Ukraine.
Genre
- Identification documents.
- Document