Eugenia Josefsberg Burg collection

Identifier: irn518586
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn518586

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007 by Stefan Burg, the son of Eugenia Josefsberg Burg.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a Star of David armband and a document related to the experience of Eugenia Josefsberg Burg in the Boryslaw ghetto/labor camp in Poland during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

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Szymon Burg family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn47916
- English
- 1914-1981
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Contains 24 photographs, dated circa 1914-1949, and documents relating to the Szymon Burg family of Boryslaw (Galicia), Poland. Documents include typed post-war testimonies, registration documents for Central Committee of Polish Jews, and paperwork prepared for restitution purposes, including affidavits from friends of Szymon and Eugene Burg living in Israel, who confirmed the veracity of their stories.
Eugenia Burg identification card
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn517227
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
The identification card ("Ausweis") was issued to Eugenia Burg (donor's mother) in the ghetto in Boryslav, Ukraine, and lists places of work, dates, and locations.
Stefan Burg document
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519078
- English
- 1941
- folder 1
- Updated 7 months ago
Document: receipt issued to Simon Wagner, Eugenia Burg's brother-in-law, by the German authorities in Boryslaw for the confiscated radio, dated July 11, 1941; in German.
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband with a Star of David worn in the Boryslaw labor camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn519079
- English
- 1942-1944
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband issued to 28 year old Eugenia Josefsberg Burg to identify her as Jewish forced laborer during her imprisonment in the ghetto in Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine), established by the Germans in August 1942. Boryslaw had an important oil refinery and, for a while, the workers were not subject to the mass deportations to death camps which emptied Boryslaw of all Jews by 1944. Eugenia and her husband, Szymon, escaped from the ghetto around April 1943. With a small group, they hid in a dugout in the forest until the area was liberated by the Soviet Army on ...

Eugenia Josefsberg Burg collection

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Szymon Burg family papers

Eugenia Burg identification card

Stefan Burg document

Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband with a Star of David worn in the Boryslaw labor camp