Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer family collection

Identifier: irn521845
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn521845

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2004 by Barbara Kelhoffer Bieganiec, the daughter of Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of artifacts: armbands, badges, and a wooden box, correspondence, documents, glass and film negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Sydonia and Zbigniew Kelhoffer and their families before the Holocaust in Boryslaw, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine), and during the Holocaust in the Boryslaw ghetto and Beskiden labor camp, including years when they lived in hiding.

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Plastic covered Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband, number 102866 worn in the Boryslaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516867
- English
- overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband number 102866 with an embroidered A in a Star of David worn by Zbyszek Kelhoffer, circa 1941-1943, as a forced laborer in the Beskiden Oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Zbyszek was drafted into the Soviet Army. He was captured by the Germans, escaped, and returned home. On July 1, German troops occupied Borysl...
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband number 102616 worn in the Boryslaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516868
- English
- overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Arbeitsjude [Jewish worker] armband number 102616 embroidered with an A in a Star od David worn by Zbyszek Kelhoffer, circa 1941-1943, as a forced laborer in the Beskiden Oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Zbyszek was drafted into the Soviet Army. He was captured by the Germans, escaped, and returned home. On July 1, German troops occupied Borysl...
Plastic covered paper armband with a cut out Star of David worn in the Boryslaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516869
- English
- overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Paper armband with a stencilled cut out Star of David worn by Zbyszek Kelhoffer circa 1941-1943 as a forced laborer in the Beskiden Oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Zbyszek was drafted into the Soviet Army. He was captured by the Germans, escaped, and returned home. On July 1, German troops occupied Boryslaw. There was a succession of joint Ger...
Plastic covered Rustung [Armament] badge worn by a Polish Jewish worker in Beskiden labor camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516872
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Badge with an R for Rustung [Armament Worker] worn by Zbyszek Kelhoffer, circa 1941-1943, as a forced laborer in the Beskiden oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Zbyszek was drafted into the Soviet Army. He was captured by the Germans, escaped, and returned home. On July 1, German troops occupied Boryslaw. There was a succession of joint German SS...
Badge with an R for Rustung (Armament) worn by a Polish Jewish worker in Beskiden labor camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516873
- English
- overall: Height: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Badge with an R for Rustung (Armament Worker) worn by Zbyszek Kelhoffer, circa 1941-1943, as a forced laborer in the Beskiden Oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Zbyszek was drafted into the Soviet Army. He was captured by the Germans, escaped, and returned home. On July 1, German troops occupied Boryslaw. There was a succession of joint German SS...
Cloth badge with an R for Rustung (Armament) worn by a Polish Jewish worker in Beskiden labor camp
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516874
- English
- 1942-1943
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cloth badge with an R for Rustung (Armament) worn by Zbyszek Kelhoffer circa 1941-1943 as a forced laborer in the Beskiden Oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Zbyszek was drafted into the Soviet Army. He was captured by the Germans, escaped, and returned home. On July 1, German troops occupied Boryslaw. There was a succession of joint German SS an...
Wooden box with inlaid initials used by a Polish Jew in hiding in the Boryslaw ghetto
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn516875
- English
- 1942-1945
- overall: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm) | Depth: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Handmade wooden box used by Zbyszek Kelhoffer to store personal items in the Jewish ghetto in Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine), 1941-1945. The box had belonged to his grandfather, Maurycy, a surgeon, who used it to store his surgical instruments. From 1941-1943, Zbyszek was a forced laborer in the Beskiden Oil factory camp in German occupied Boryslaw, Poland (Boryslav, Ukraine). When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Zbyszek was mobilized into the Polish Army. After a brief campaign, he returned to Soviet occupied Boryslaw. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and Z...
Kelhoffer and Pomeranz families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn535165
- English
- 1940-1950
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Kelhoffer and Pomeranz families papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Zbigniew Kelhoffer, his wife, Sydonia Pomeranz and their families in Borysław, Poland during the Holocaust. The collection contains identification cards, correspondence, pre and post-war photographs of both families, and a series of diaries written by Zbyszek during his imprisonment in the Borysław ghetto in 1942 and sent to his wife in hiding. Kelhoffer and Pomeranz families papers contain documents and photographs concerning the Kellhoffers’ and Pomeranz’ experiences in the years immediately before Wo...