Kleiner, Wagman and Schmer families papers
Extent and Medium
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Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Marian Górecki
Funding Note: The acquisition of this collection was made possible by the Crown Family.
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Marian Gorecki in 2014.
Scope and Content
Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of the Kleiner, Wagman, and Schmer families before the war in Boryslaw, Poland; during the German occupation, when Hela Kleiner and her baby son Marian were in the ghetto, and later when Hela asked Michasia Sulik to take her two-year-old son Marian. Hela remained in hiding with Tadzio Schmer (later Tadeusz Gorecki), who lost his wife and children. Includes writings by Tadzio in hiding; correspondence with Jona Kleiner and other family members and friends in the Soviet Union; and postwar correspondence and photographs, including photographs fromt he Righteous Among the Nations ceremony for Michasia Sulik in Yad Vashem.
Corporate Bodies
- Commission for the Designation of the Righteous among the Nations
Subjects
- Righteous Gentiles
- Rescues.
- Boryslaw (Ukraine).
Genre
- Photographs.
- Letters.
- Document