Lida Duciak and Wasyl Iszczenko collection
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Valerie I. Young In memory of her parents, Lida and Wasyl Iszczenko
Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 by Valerie I. Young, daughter of Wasyl and Lida Iszczenko.
Scope and Content
Contains an “Arbeitsbuch für Ausländer” (employment record book for foreign workers) issued to Lida Duciak (donor’s mother), who was forced to work on a farm in Germany; an “Arbeitskarte” (worker’s ID card) issued to Lida Daciuk on May 13, 1942; a birth certificate (copy), issued for Lida Duciak, certifying that she was born on September 12, 1922 to a Ukrainian Orthodox family, issued on August 3, 1942; a “Good Conduct Statement” for Wasyl Iszczenko and Lidia Iszczenko, residing in a Stephanskirchen DP camp, issued on October 20, 1949; a copy of a birth certificate issued to Wassyl Iszczenko and Lida Daciuk, both of Greek Orthodox religion, who married on May 4, 1946 in Ingolstadt, Germany, issued on August 1, 1949, in English; a letter issued by the municipality of Schweinfurt, Germany, regretting that they cannot send any documentation testifying “good conduct” during the years 1942-1945, since all the documentation has been destroyed, dated July 2, 1962, in German.
Subjects
- Displaced persons camps.
- Schweinfurt (Germany)
- Ingolstadt (Germany)
- Forced labor--Germany.
Genre
- Identification card.
- Document