Leontyna Davies questionnaire transcript and photo album

Identifier
irn503632
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.A.0010
  • RG-02.070.01
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503632

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Leontyna (Tina) Davies

Biographical History

Leontyna (Tina) Davies Opoczynska, a Jewish survivor, was born on 23 March 1921 in Kraków, Poland. She was a survivor of Auschwitz.

Archival History

Richard Davies

Acquisition

Richard Davies, son of donor, sent her completed questionnaire to Mr. Robert Buckley in Dec. 1991. (The date on which it was completed is not indicated in the questionnaire text.) Mr.Buckley turned over the questionnaire to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in Feb. 1992. Apparently, that department already had on file the photocopies of family album pages that form the other part of the accession. In Nov. 1992, The Oral History Department transferred to United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumA both the questionnaire and the album pages, while retaining copies in its own departmental files to supplement its taped interview with Ms. Davies.

Scope and Content

Contains information about Leontyna Opocynska Davies' experiences in her hometown of Nowy Sacz, Poland, and the ghettos of Stary Sacz and Krakow; her forced labor at the AEG - Allgemeine Elektrizitägss Gesellschaft Kabel factory in Płaszów; her internment at Auschwitz; and her survival of a death march in Germany. Also included are pages of an album containing photos of the Opocynski family in the Stary Sacz ghetto. The album contains notations and photo identifications made by Leontyna Davies.

System of Arrangement

Arrangement is thematic

People

  • Opoczynska, Leontyna.
  • Davies, Leontyna (Opoczynska, Leontyna)

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

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.