Gerald Kaiser family collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 and 2015 by Gerald Kaiser.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of a knit bag and photographs relating to the experiences of Bernard, Cesia, and Jurek (Gerald) Kaiser and their family before and during the Holocaust in Kielce Ghetto, Chlewice, Lipnica labor camp, and Sosnowiec, Poland, and in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war and of the Wlodek family in Lvov and Wegleszyn, Poland. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Genre
- Collection