Jane Ponczek photographs

Identifier
irn502405
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2004.427
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502405

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Jane Ponczek

Biographical History

Jane Ponczek was born Janka Labiner in Czortków, Poland (now Chortkiv, Ukraine) around 1936 to Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner. Her older sister died in infancy and her brother Alex was two years younger. She was visiting her maternal grandmother, Beila Shajter, in Skała-Podolska (now Skala-Podilska, Ukraine) when her family was arrested in Czortków in 1941 or 1942 under the German occupation. When Skała was raided the next day, she and Beila hid on the roof. Jane’s father was released, arranged for a Ukrainian family to look after Jane, and then disappeared. He is presumed to have been murdered in the Holocaust along with Jane’s mother, brother, and grandparents. Jane was located after World War II by an uncle who gave her false identification papers claiming she was his daughter and was born December 10, 1936. Her real birthdate is unknown. Jane and her uncle moved to Argentina in 1946, and Jane later immigrated to the United States.

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.

Jane Ponczek donated the Jane Ponczek photographs to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004.

Scope and Content

The Jane Ponczek photographs document her family before World War II in Poland. Photographs and copy prints include a wedding portrait of Holocaust victims Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner in 1934 in Skała-Podolska, Poland; a photograph of the Shajter family in Skała-Podolska (Sara Labiner at the top left and Beila Shajter in the doorway); and a photograph of Chaim Weizmann with Holocaust survivor Jane Ponczek and other orphans in Wrocław, Poland after the war (Jane has her hand on Weizmann’s right shoulder).

System of Arrangement

The Jane Ponczek photographs are arranged as a single series.

People

  • Weizmann, Chaim, 1874-1952.

Subjects

  • Jews--Ukraine--Skala-Podilʹsʹka.
  • Wrocław (Poland)
  • Jewish orphans--Poland.
  • Chortkiv (Ukraine)
  • Jews--Ukraine--Chortkiv.
  • Skala-Podilʹsʹka (Ukraine)

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.