Renee Lisse Sachs family collection

Identifier: irn524781
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn524781

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2015 by Keith Sachs, the husband of Renee Lisse Sachs.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a doll, documents, an oral history, and photographs relating to the experiences of Renee Lyszka and her family in prewar, wartime, and postwar Poland, France, and the United States.

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Oral history interview with Renée Sachs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn526746
- English
- 2007-2008
- 3 digital files, MOV 1 digital file, MPEG-4
- Updated 1 year ago
Lyszka family papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn526972
- English
- 1935-1974
- box oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Lyszka family papers contain biographical papers and photographs documenting Renée Lyszka's (later Renée Lisse Sachs) childhood in France, where she hid in Saint Pardoux with her aunt Renée Cwajgenbaum during World War II. The collection documents the Cwajgenbaum and Lyszka families in Łódż, Poland, and Paris, France as well. The papers include identification, immigration, and French school papers of Renée; burial certificates of Renée's parents Abraham and Sara Lyszka; and an identification document of Abraham's. The photographs include photographs of Renée as a child in Paris, Brunoy,...
Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn526976
- English
- overall: Height: 17.625 inches (44.768 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Depth: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Baby doll given to Renee Lyszka, age 4, either while she was living in hiding in France in 1944, or just after the war. In May 1940, a couple months after Renee was born in Paris, Nazi Germany invaded France. The armistice signed in June placed Paris under German military administration. Anti-Jewish policies were enacted and deportations of Jews to camps in the east began by 1942. Renee and her father Abraham did not look Jewish and, with false papers as Christians, they were able to move about. Her mother Sara had to remain hidden at home. In 1944, a neighbor denounced Sara to the Gestapo ...

Renee Lisse Sachs family collection

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Oral history interview with Renée Sachs

Lyszka family papers

Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France