Helena Sztajnberg memoir

Identifier
irn502184
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.212
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502184

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this memoir from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Art and Artifacts branch on May 14, 1999. Yoram Shaaf, the son of Helena Sztajnberg donated this memoir to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Art and Artifacts branch.

Scope and Content

Contains a memoir, 37 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Helen Sztajnberg. She was born in 1919, in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland. After the German invasion she and her son Jurek were forced into a ghetto, where she attempted to obtain false papers as Helena Andrzejczak. She traveled from town to town throughout the war and was liberated in April 1945. Her parents and brothers perished in Treblinka and her husband was murdered by Poles after the war.

Genre

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