Doba Drezner and Oscar Albert and Bernard and Herman Jezower collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014, 2015 and 2017 by Helen Albert, the great-niece of Bernard and Herman Jezower and the daughter of Oscar Albert and Doba Drezner Albert.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman and Bernard Jezower, and a wooden cover, metal box, toolbox, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Oscar Albert, who was deported from the Rzeszow ghetto and imprisoned Plaszow forced labor camp, Mielec slave labor camp, and Flossenburg concentration camp, after the war in a displaced persons camp, and a metal box, wooden cover, and poesie album relating to the experiences of Doba Drezner in an orphanage in Czestochowa, Poland. An accretion of documents, photographs, correspondence, books and a ring was donated in 2015. An accretion of photos, selective service registration card and a Yiddish-Hebrew dictionary was donated in 2017.
Genre
- Collection