Molly Bastocka Ingster collection

Identifier
irn501690
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0168
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501690

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Malkele Bostotzky

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997 anonymously

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence, a memoir, and newspaper articles with information regarding survival in Bergen-Belsen's women's camp including a description of starvation. Newspaper articles discuss Bastotzky's Holocaust related experiences. A letter fromTom Lantos, dated March 14, 1994. A list of family names and their fates, dated August 22, 1991. A written, unsigned statement regarding the usage of skin to make lamp-shades, baby's body fat to make soap, and mattresses from hair of gassed victims. Copy of UNRRA certificate. Copy of letter from American GI to the Jewish Welfare Board who met Bastocka after liberation.

People

  • Ingster, Molly.
  • Bostotzky, Malkele.
  • Bastocka, Molly.

Corporate Bodies

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.