Drozdowicz and Gorodecki family papers

Identifier
irn43110
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2011.388.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn43110

Extent and Medium

box

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Rachel and Leah Drozdowicz

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011 by Leah Drozdowicz.

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence, photographs, typescript memoirs, and a songbook, related to the experiences of the family of Adam (Gutgisser) Drozdowicz and his wife, Krystyna (nee Gorodecka) Drozdowicza. Includes various versions--in Yiddish, Polish, and English--of memoir from Chana Gorodecka entitled "Chana: Memoir of a Polish Jewess," describing experiences in Janow (Pinsk) and Warsaw under the Soviet and German occupation during World War II; and memoir fragments from her daughter Krystyna (Cypa) Drozdowicza, and the latter's husband, Dr. Adam (Gutgisser) Drozdowicz. Includes descriptions of pre-war life in Pinsk, occupation of Poland in 1939, move to Warsaw, and subsequent life in Warsaw Ghetto and resistance activities there.

Subjects

  • Warsaw (Poland).
  • Pinsk (Belarus)

Genre

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