Lidia Kleinman Siciarz collection

Identifier: irn523448
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Lidia Kleinman Siciarz.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a wallet, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Lidia Kleinman as a hidden child in Poland during the Holocaust.

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Lidia Kleinman Siciarz papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523459
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Papers consist of a birth certificate issued to Aniuta Szwarcman (donor's mother); a portion of a document with a signature on it; an identification photograph; and a group of family photographs.
Leather wallet with gold leaf monogram kept by a Jewish girl while living in hiding
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn523460
- English
- 1942-1945
- overall: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Wallet kept by Lida Kleinman while she lived in hiding on her own from the ages of 12-14. The wallet belonged to her mother, Aniuta, and it held her photo ID card. Lida, her mother, and her father, Mendel, a physician, struggled to stay together after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. They fled to the Soviet controlled eastern sector and when the Soviets began to deport Jews, they moved to Turka nad Stryjem. Jewish persecution escalated with the sudden 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1942, Lida’s mother learned that all Jews were to be deported the next day. Sinc...

Lidia Kleinman Siciarz collection

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Lidia Kleinman Siciarz papers

Leather wallet with gold leaf monogram kept by a Jewish girl while living in hiding