Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection
Extent and Medium
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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.
Maria Gunsberg donated a photocopy of her diary to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997. In 2010, her son-in-law, Edward Borkovsky, donated a photocopy of the diary of Gustav Engel, Maria Gunsberg's father, and requested that it be accreted to the collection.
Scope and Content
The Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection consists of a photocopy of a diary, in Polish, describing Maria Engel Gunsberg's life from 1939-1945, including time spent in hiding in Eastern Poland. Also includes a photocopy of the diary of her father, Gustav Engel, also written in hiding. Engel's diary gives extensive information about the events of the Holocaust near Tarnopol, Poland. The original diaries are located at Yad Vashem.
System of Arrangement
The Maria and Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection is arranged in a single series.
People
- Engel, Gustav.
- Gunsberg, Maria.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue.
- Children.
- Tarnopol (Poland)
- Poland.
- Jewish children.
- Jews--Poland.
- Hidden children (Holocaust)
- Jews rescue (1939-1945)
Genre
- Diaries.
- Document