Newspaper wrapping
Extent and Medium
1 newspaper,
Archival History
The newspaper wrapping was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2002 by by the family of Lusia Hornstein.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Lusia Hornstein
Scope and Content
Newpaper fragment wrapping a diary (2002.74.1) that was written by a young woman named Debora who fought with the Polish underground in Warsaw. Debora hid the diary and told her friend Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein, a fellow underground fighter, where to find it should Debora not survive. Debora was killed by a bomb in Warsaw during the Polish uprising in 1944. Lusia recovered the diary in March 1945 from behind a radiator in a burned-out house, and wrapped it in this newspaper. In August 1998, shortly before her death, Lusia Schwarzwald Hornstein gave the diary to to her children.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
No restrictions on use
People
- Debora.
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Personal narratives.
Genre
- Object
- Books and Published Materials
- Newspapers.