Antoni Czerniewski papers

Identifier
irn46851
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.396.1
Dates
1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1956, 1 Jan 1930 - 31 Dec 1996
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Stefanie Czerniewski

Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Acquired by Antoni Czerniewski (donor's late father) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Stefanie Czerniewski.

Scope and Content

Contains documents relating to Antoni Czerniewski (donor’s father), a graduate of the Vilna University and Warsaw Academy of Arts, who as a lieutenant in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in April 1941 in Katyn. The collection includes a notebook Antoni Czerniewski kept during his imprisonment; sketches of the altar in Vilna; documents and photographs from beforeand after the war; documents relating to his immigration to the US in December 1946; and a letter from Czesław Miłosz, c. 1981.

System of Arrangement

The Antoni Czerniewski papers are arranged in a single series.

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