Rachel and Leah Drozdowicz papers

Identifier
irn47572
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.186.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • Yiddish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn47572

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

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

The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Rachel and Leah Drozdowicz, the grandaughters of Cypa Gorodecka.

Scope and Content

False birth certificate and Kennkarte used by Cypa Gorodecka (donors' paternal grandmother); collection of photographs: images depicting Gorodecki family in Janów Podolski and in Warsaw before the war, images of Drozdowicz family, Chana Gorodecka, Rywka-Jadzia Gorodecka Gothelf and her family after the war in Poland and Israel; collection of correspondence between Chana Gorodecka in Israel and Adam (real name: Adam Gutgisser) and Krysia Drozdowicz (real name: Cypa Gorodecka) in Poland; photographs of Piotr Chaim Gorodecki and his sister at the grave of Chana Gorodecka and Dr. Kannabus in Warsaw, dated c. 1992; Identification document for Krysia Drozdowicz, dated c. 1956

Genre

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