Wallace Witkowski photograph collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Wallace A. Witkowski
Biographical History
Wallace A. Witkowski was born in 1928 in Kielce, Poland, to a Polish Catholic family. His father was a chemical engineer, and his mother was a teacher. The Germans occupied Kielce in 1939. Wallace witnessed pogroms against Jews in 1942. Wallace was active in the resistance, acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the Kielce pogrom. He emigrated to the United States in 1949.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
Wallace Witkowski donated the collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
Scope and Content
The three photographs in the collection are studio portraits of Wallace Witkowski in 1945, Wallace Witkowski and his sister in 1946, and Wallace Witkowski's mother in 1943.
System of Arrangement
Arrangement is in the order in which received
People
- Witkowski, Wallace A., 1928-
Genre
- Document
- Portrait photographs.