Margalit Bar-On collection

Identifier
irn501694
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1997.A.0200
Dates
1 Jan 1973 - 31 Dec 1997
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Hebrew
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn501694

Extent and Medium

folder

1

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.

Margalit Bar-On donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1997.

Scope and Content

The Margalit Bar-On collection consists of copies of typed and handwritten poems, some with modern photographs included, and photocopies of photographs of the Mydlarz family, originally of Łódź, Poland. The poems were written by Margalit Mydlarz Bar-On between 1973-1989. The poems describe her experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, Harburg, her liberation from Bergen-Belsen, and time in Sweden for recovery. She also describes her illegal immigration to Palestine, capture, and internment in Cyprus.

System of Arrangement

The Margalit Bar-On collection is arranged in a single series.

People

  • Hunter, Walter.
  • King, Pauline.
  • Weisz, Mindy.
  • Levy, Herman.
  • Wells, Amy.
  • Waters, Lisette.
  • Shine, Helga.
  • Cohen, Amelia.
  • Quintin, Josh.
  • Roller, Vera.
  • Miller, Jane.
  • Cohn, Jenny.
  • Cohen, Fred.
  • Doerfler, Alma.
  • Gregory, Morton.
  • Collin, Margaret.
  • Hohenstein, Leo.
  • Reed, Hattie.
  • Mendel, Hanna.
  • Sheldon, Sheila.
  • Cohen, Margaret.
  • Rosenstein, Anton.

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Genre

  • Document
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