History of the family Wos the dream comes true
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
The memoir/family history was created by Elena S. Whiteside as told to her by Paul Wos, Irena Wos Madejska, Odon Wos, and Wanda Wos Lorenc. The donor presumably left photocopied sections (i.e., introductory pages and chapters by Paul Wos and Irena Wos Madejska) when she visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History Department in May 1992. That department passed on the materials (or photocopies of some) to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives ca. Sept. 1992.
Scope and Content
Contains information about the Wos family from the late nineteenth century to World War II, including references to the helpfulness of Mr. Wos' father, a Polish Catholic, to Jews during the existence of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Additionally, gives information on Polish resistance to the German occupation of Poland; deportations; Ravensbrück; forced labor in Germany; repatriation; post war life under the communist regime in Poland; and emigration to the United States.
People
- Wos, Paul.
- Wos, Irena.
- Madejska, Irena Wos.
- Wos, Pawel.
Corporate Bodies
- Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Schutzstaffel
- Ravensbrück (Concentration camp)
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Poland.
- Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust.
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Warsaw (Poland)--History--Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943.
- Forced labor.
- Jews--Poland--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Jewish resistance--Poland.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Genealogy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations.
- Poles--Crimes against.
- Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
- Holocaust survivors.
- Women concentration camp guards.
Genre
- Document