Zygmunt Jastrzębski postcard
Extent and Medium
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Creator(s)
- Zygmunt Jastrzębski
Biographical History
Zygmunt Jastrzębski was born April 24, 1920 in Lubochnia to Walenty and Maria Jastrzębski. He was a Roman Catholic shoemaker. He was arrested in Lubochnia by the Gestapo as a political prisoner on August 19, 1940 and transferred to Buchenwald three days later. His records indicate that he was subjected to medical experiments involving typhus injections in Block 46 in 1943. He was liberated by the US Army on May 5, 1945.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Zygmunt Jastrzębski donated the postcard to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989.
Scope and Content
Zygmunt Jastrzębski wrote the postcard in Buchenwald concentration camp addressed to his sister, Hania Jastrzębska. In the postcard he writes that he is well and asks for news.
System of Arrangement
Zygmunt Jastrzębski postcard is arranged in a single series.
People
- Jasrzebska, Zygmunt.
- Jasrzebski, Hania.
Corporate Bodies
Subjects
- Political prisoners.
- Germany.
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland.
- Concentration camp inmates.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Document
- Correspondence.