Zofia Chorowicz Burowska collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3003
• English
• a: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) c: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Armand Marseille doll with pink knit booties made for Zofia Chorowicz and kept with her in the Krakow and Wolbrom ghettos in 1941 and 1942. Zofia’s parents, Isydor and Rachela, gave her the doll in the 1930’s. Zofia entrusted the doll, a teddy bear, and other family valuables to a non-Jewish Polish family, who gave them back to Zofia after the war ended in May 1945. Zofia, 18, and her mother Rachela were forced to move into the Krakow ghetto, established by German authorities in March 1941. In 1941 or 1942, they were moved to Wolbrom, Poland. During a selection on September 5, 1942, Zofia w...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn4776
• English
• 1929
• Updated 7 months ago

Book once in the Gordonia Library, From the Unknown World: Hasidic and folk tales, found by Zofie Chorowicz after the war when she returned to Krakow, Poland, ca. May 1945 after liberation. Zofia, 18, and her mother Rachela were forced to move into the Krakow ghetto, established by German authorities in March 1941. In 1941 or 1942, they were moved to Wolbrom, Poland. During a selection on September 5, 1942, Zofia was sent to a labor camp in Krakow. Her mother was killed. In fall 1943, Zofia was sent to be a slave laborer in the HASAG factory in Skarzysko-Kamienna labor camp. In August 1944,...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn5225
• English
• overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Depth: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
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Teddy bear owned by Zofia Chorowicz and kept with her in the Krakow and Wolbrom ghettos in 1941 and 1942. Zofia’s parents, Isydor and Rachela, gave her the bear in the 1930’s. Zofia entrusted the teddy bear, a doll, and other family valuables to a non-Jewish Polish family, who gave them back to Zofia after the war ended in May 1945. Zofia, 18, and her mother Rachela were forced to move into the Krakow ghetto, established by German authorities in March 1941. In 1941 or 1942, they were moved to Wolbrom, Poland. During a selection on September 5, 1942, Zofia was sent to a labor camp in Krakow....

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548945
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Zofia (Chorowicz) Burowska and her parents. Includes a postcard Zofia received from her father, dated July 1938, and the last letter she received from her mother before she was killed. Zofia and her mother were, at first, together in a Wolbrom Ghetto outside of Krakow and Zofia managed to get out and move to a Labor Camp in Krakow (Julag.) She tried desperately to get her mother there too. She finally managed to get someone to retrieve her mother, but at that point her mother was already killed and this letter was the...