Joseph Polzer papers

Identifier
irn713463
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.492.1
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713463

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Natalie Polzer

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Natalie Polzer, daughter of Joseph Polzer.

Scope and Content

Contains notebooks written by Joseph Polzer in 1940 and 1941 in a children's home in Château de Chaumont, France. Includes photographs of pre-war Austria, where Joseph was born in 1929. Along with his mother Mirrha, Jewish and originally Russian and father Karl Polzer, non-Jewish and Austrian, the family fled to France in 1938. By 1940, Joseph was placed at Château de Chaumont, a castle used by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) that housed thousands of Jewish children. The Polzer family was able to leave by 1941 and came to the United States.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Copyright Holder: Dr. Natalie Polzer

Corporate Bodies

  • World Union OSE

Subjects

  • Chaumont-sur-Loire (France)
  • France
  • Hidden children (Holocaust)--France.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.

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