Szlama Kleiner papers
Extent and Medium
folders
3
Creator(s)
- Szlama Kleiner
Biographical History
Szloma Kleiner was born on September 15, 1918, in lazy, Poland. His father, Hersz-Lejb Kleiner, was a tailor, and his mother, Mala Dresner Kleiner, took care of the children. Szloma had four siblings: Abram-Zelig (1914-1943), Mendel Ajzik (1916-1943), Cesia, (1923-ca.1943), and Doba (b.1926). Hersz-Lejb and Mala Kleiner, were deported to Auschwitz on August 26, 1943, and were killed on arrival. In November 1940, the Germans arrested Szloma and sent him to a series of camps including Flossenbürg, Borki Wielki, Gröditz, and a sub-camp of Gross Rosen. On May 8, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Szloma Kleiner, and he immediately returned to his hometown of lazy and Sosnowiec, Poland, to search for his family. When he realized that everyone but his sister, Doba, perished, he left Poland for Bergen-Belsen DP camp On August 31, 1947, he immigrated to Sweden, and two years later, on May 29, 1949, he married Nacha Weisfuss. Nacha Weisfuss Kleiner was born on May 6, 1918, in Sosnowiec. In 1941 she was deported to Flossing labor camp and later transferred to Peterswaldau labor camp. She was liberated on May 8, 1945, by the Soviet Army.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Szlama Kleiner
The papers were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Szlama Kleiner in 2000.
Scope and Content
The papers consist of photographs and six documents relating to the Kleiner and Wajsfus families before World War II, during the war in the ghettos in Łazy and Sosnowiec, Poland, in concentration camps including the Auschwitz sub-camp Fürstengrube Myslowice, and after the war in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp.
People
- Kleiner, Hersz-Lejb.
- Kleiner, Cesia.
- Dresner, Jack.
- Przechodnik, Chana.
- Zborowski, Kopel.
- Szancer, Pinkus.
- Gelkopf, Mania.
- Dresner, Abram.
- Bugajer, Kopel.
- Dresner, Sala Djamant.
- Djament, Lajbisz.
- Eksztajn, Czeslaw.
- Gelkopf, Dawid.
- Dresner, Chaim-Szyje.
- Eksztajn, Salka.
- Zborowski, Fela.
- Dresner, Josef.
- Bugajer, Juda-Lejb.
- Dresner, Frania Gelkopf.
- Przechodnik, Salek.
- Sapliker, Matjas.
- Zborowski, Nicha Wajsfus.
- Ingster, Ita.
- Kleiner, Szlama.
- Hertz, Hans.
- Dresner, Mosze-Szmil.
- Studniberg, Regina Wajsfus.
- Dresner, Sal.
- Moszkowicz, Dawid.
- Kleiner, Nadzia Wajsfus.
- Wajnsztajn, Rozia.
- Wajsfus, Szlama.
- Dresner, Ciriajl.
- Kalman, Dawid.
- Dresner, Rywka Krawczyk.
- Wajsfus, Balcia.
- Kleiner, Mendel-Ajzik.
- Szancer, Regina.
- Nechemja, Chana Wajsfus.
- Brauner, Pinkus.
- Dresner, Albert.
- Bugajer, Josef.
- Dresner, Morris.
- Wajsfus, Mania.
- Feigenblatt, Dobrys Dresner.
- Kleiner, Mendel.
- Kleiner, Abram-Zelig.
- Wajsfus, Mendel.
- Zborowski, Henryk.
- Szlama Kleiner
- Moszkowicz, Rywka Dresner.
- Wajsfus, Fela.
- Przechodnik, Sedziczef.
- Eksztajn, Frima.
- Kleiner, Mala Dresner.
Subjects
- Siewierz (Poland)
- Refugees, Jewish--Germany.
- Fürstengrube Myslowice (Concentration camp)
- Ethnic neighborhoods--Poland--Łazy--1940-1950.
- World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany.
- Łazy (Poland)
- Sosnowiec (Poland)
- World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Poland.
Genre
- Postcards.
- Identification cards.
- Document
- Certificates.
- Photographs.