Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper collection

Identifier: irn688869
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn688869

Acquisition

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Peter Koper, son of Antoni Stefan and Sophie Koper.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of Identity documents and papers from Antoni Stefan Koper, postcards from POW camp, Sophie Koper's biography of Antoni and account of apartment raid in Warsaw; Antoni's written memories; also includes Antoni's insignias and Sophie's cap from the Polish First Armored Division; papers and certificate related to Antoni Stefan Koper being honored by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations; Warsaw telephone directory from 1939/1940 and miscellaneous publications. Also press kit from when Sophie was honored in Richmond, Virginia.

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Cap
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn694181
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Depth: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Cap from the Polish First Armored Division
Insignia
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn706938
- English
- overall: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Part of Antoni Stefan Koper's insignias from the First Polish Armored Division
Insignia
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn706939
- English
- overall: Height: 1.437 inches (3.65 cm) | Width: 3.188 inches (8.098 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Part of Antoni Stefan Koper's insignias from the First Polish Armored Division
Patch
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn706940
- English
- overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Part of Antoni Stefan Koper's insignias from the First Polish Armored Division
Poster
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn708893
- English
- overall: Height: 18.125 inches (46.038 cm) | Width: 12.375 inches (31.433 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Poster notifying the population of Warsaw of 100 Polish resistance members to be publically executed in December 1943.
Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn712883
- English
- 1943-1999
- box oversize folder 1 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Antoni Stefan Koper, an active member of the Polish Resistance during the German occupation of Warsaw, and his wife Sophie Koper, whom he rescued from the Warsaw ghetto and served as a nurse during the Warsaw Uprising. Included are Antoni’s wartime identification cards, post-war documents from the Polish Armoured Division, letters from Sophie written to him while imprisoned in Oflag II D at Gross Born, personal narratives, and photographs. Papers of Sophie include wartime documents bearing her false identity of Zofia Jabłońska...

Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper collection

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Insignia

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Poster

Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers