Michael Kolanik papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Creator(s)
- Michael Kolanik Jr.
Biographical History
Michael Kolanik, Jr., (1948-2004) was the son of Michael Kolanik, Sr., (1913-1992), who was born in Pennsylvania but taken to Poland by his Polish-born mother and uncle in 1921. During the German occupation of Poland, he was forced into labor service on farms and in factories in Germany.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Michael Kolanik donated his papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995.
Scope and Content
The Michael Kolanik papers document Kolanik's unsuccessful efforts to receive compensation or recognition from the German, Polish, and American governments for the time his father, Michael Kolanik, Sr., spent in Nazi labor camps in Germany during World War II.
System of Arrangement
The Michael Kolanik papers are arranged in two series: I. Photocopies of correspondence and clippings [1991-1995], 1995, and II. Photocopies of documentation [1940-1950], 1995
Corporate Bodies
- Reichswerke Aktiengesellschaft für Erzbergbau und Eisenhütten "Hermann Göring"
Subjects
- Regensburg (Germany)
- Oer-Erkenschwick (Germany)
- World War, 1939-1945--Reparations.
- Forced labor--Germany.
- Polish Americans--Germany.
Genre
- Document