Jakob Widawski photographs

Identifier
irn46866
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2012.200.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn46866

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Freda Widawski

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2012 by Freda Widawski.

Scope and Content

Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.

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