Janina Spinner Mehlberg testimony
Extent and Medium
folders
2
Creator(s)
- Janina S. Mehlberg
Biographical History
Janina Spinner Mehlberg was born in Galicia, Poland, on 1 May 1915. As the Germans invaded Poland, she and her husband fled eastward from Lwów (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) to Lublin, Poland, where they hid in the home of a Christian woman. The Mehlbergs became involved in an underground movement to supply the prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp with extra food and medicine. She and her husband survived the Holocaust and emigrated to the United States. Janina Mehlberg died in May 1969.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of this testimony from an unknown donor in 1992. In 2003, the Museum received a revised copy of the memoir from Arthur Layton Funk on behalf of Ms. Mehlberg's stepdaughters. The copy is located at 2003.333.
Scope and Content
Consists of a copy of a testimony by Janina Spinner Mehlberg. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp.
People
- Mehlberg, Henry.
- Mehlberg, Janina Spinner.
Corporate Bodies
- Germany. Gestapo
- Majdanek (Concentration camp)
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
Subjects
- Catholics.
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Hiding places--Poland.
- Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
- Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
- Lʹviv (Ukraine)
- Holocaust survivors.
- Lublin (Poland)
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Document