Rose and Mayer Zar papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Creator(s)
- Howard Zar
Biographical History
Rose Zar (Szoszana Zarnowiecki or Rose Guterman) was born on July 27, 1923 in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. After the German invasion, Rose lived in the Piotrków ghetto until April 1940 when she fled to Warsaw where she obtained false identification papers under the name of Wanda Gajda. In December 1942 she moved to Kraków where she worked as a nanny in the home of Kurt Albers, a German SS officer. After the end of World War II, she married a fellow survivor, Mayer Zarnowiecki (Zar), who was interned in Buchenwald and Theresienstadt after leaving the Piotrków ghetto. As displaced persons, the couple worked together at the Lindenfels children's home in Germany where they helped prepare Jewish children for emigration to Palestine.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Howard Zar
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Howard Zar in 2002.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of documents relating to Rose and Mayer Zar's (formerly Szoszana and Mayer Zarnowiecki) [donor's parents] residence in different DP camps in Germany and include inoculation certificates, registration cards, the birth certificate of their firstborn son, Awiron Zarnowiecki, and his death certificate indicating that the little boy drowned on May 29, 1951, reparations payment certificates, and announcements.
People
- Zar, Rose, 1923-
- Howard Zar
- Zar, Mayer.
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany.
- Refugees, Jewish--Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations.
Genre
- Document
- Identification cards.
- Birth certificates.
- Death certificates.