Maksymilian Wolfsthal collection

Identifier
irn515706
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1992.129
Dates
1 Jan 1945 - 31 Dec 1952
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

Biographical History

Maksymilian Wolfsthal was born in Sambor, Poland (now Sambir, Ukraine), on Nov. 2, 1902, and died in New York, N.Y., on Mar. 11, 1990. He lived in Przemyśl, Poland, and studied law in Lʹvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine). He lived in Lʹvov from 1941 to 1943. He lost his first wife in the Lʹvov ghetto and married a widowed woman with two children. They were deported to Bergen-Belsen. Maksymilian was liberated by the British Army on Apr. 3, 1945. He lived in Belgium from 1945 to 1952 when he emigrated to the United States.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

Funding Note: The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded Save Their Stories campaign.

Zahawa Wolfsthal donated her husband's diaries to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992.

Scope and Content

Consists of a memoir by Maksymilian Wolfsthal about his experiences in the ghetto in Lʹvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) and in Janowska, his deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1943, and life in Bergen-Belsen. He began the diaries on October 3, 1945 after his emigration to Belgium. The memoir is in two volumes, with volume one covering June 21, 1941--September 1942, and volume two covering October 1942 until his liberation from Bergen-Belsen.

People

Subjects

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.