Rose Galek Brunswic collection

Identifier: irn68613
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn68613

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 by Rose Galek Brunswic.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of a table knife and a religious medal relating to the experiences of Raszka (Rose) Galek in the Warsaw ghetto and during her forced labor service in the assumed identity of a non-Jewish Polish person in Germany during the Holocaust.

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Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn369
- English
- 1938
- overall: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Dinner knife with an engraved swastika given to 25 year old Raszka Galek by Karl Beck, an SS officer, on whose farm she worked as a non-Jewish Polish forced labor from June 1943-April 1945 in Krummhardt, Germany. In November 1940, Raszka, her parents, Moshe and Fela, and her sisters Deana and Sala were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In April 1943, Raszka’s parents were shot and her sisters were deported to a concentration camp. Raszka later escaped and went into hiding. She received false identity papers for a Polish Catholic named Maria Kowalczyk from the Polish underground. Jan Majewski, ...
Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn370
- English
- 1932
- overall: | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)
- Updated 7 months ago
Religious medal of Our Lady of Częstochowa (also known as the Black Madonna of Częstochowa or Matka Boska Częstochowska), given to Raszka (Rose) Galek in June 1943 by Jan Majewski to help her hide as a Catholic. The medal was made in 1932, and modeled after a revered painting of the Virgin Mary and the baby Christ at the Jasna Góra monastery in Częstochowa, Poland. The medal commemorated the 550th anniversary of the painting’s donation to the church. In November 1940, Raszka, her parents, Moshe and Fela, and her sisters Deana and Sala were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In April 1943, Ras...

Rose Galek Brunswic collection

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Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service

Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer