Rose Galek Brunswic family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503665
• English
• 1941-1989
• folders box 3 1
• Updated 8 months ago

The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the persecution of Jewry in Nazi-occupied Poland, assistance rendered to Rose Brunswic by a member of the Polish resistance, Brunswic's deportation as a compulsory laborer to Germany and her life working in Germany under an assumed identity as a Polish Christian, her life as a displaced person in the American Zone of occupied Germany, her emigration to the United States, and her subsequent efforts to gain restitution on the grounds of health and loss of freedom.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514288
• English
• 1937
• overall: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Six cards of mother-of-pearl buttons, 24 per card, totalling a gross, 144, presented to Rose Galek Brunswic in 1987 by the son of a former employee in her father's factory in Sochocin, Poland. Marceli Kochanowski's mother had saved the buttons which she had helped make in Moshe Galek's factory before the war. In November 1940, a year after the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Raszka (Rose), her parents Moshe and Fela, and her younger sisters Deana and Sala were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In April 1943, Raszka’s parents were shot as she watched and her sisters deported to a...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn514289
• English
• 1937
• a: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)
• Updated 8 months ago

Two mother-of-pearl shards presented to Rose Galek Brunswic in 1987 by the son of a former employee in her father's factory in Sochocin, Poland. Marceli Kochanowski's mother had saved the shards, raw material for the buttons which she had helped make in Moshe Galek's factory before the war. See 1989.204.1 for finished buttons. In November 1940, a year after the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Raszka (Rose), her parents Moshe and Fela, and her younger sisters Deana and Sala were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In April 1943, Raszka’s parents were shot as she watched and her sis...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn519462
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 8 months ago

Contains manuscripts and a typescript of a talk by Rose Galek Brunswic [donor] relating to the Holocaust.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521414
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 8 months ago

The papers consist of a letter of authentication for the collection from Marceli Kochanowski and two photographs of Moshe and Fela Galek (donor's parents).

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn521415
• English
• 1926
• Updated 8 months ago

Haggadah received by eight year Kurt Braunschweig from his paternal grandfather for the first night of Passover in 1928 in Frankfurt, Germany.