Chana Batista papers
Extent and Medium
folder
1
Creator(s)
- Chana Batista
Biographical History
Chana was born in 1938 in Czestochowa and her mother tried to find a hiding place for her, without success. Chana was picked up in the street by a Polish man and saved by the Zielonka family. Guta Rozen was executed with hospital patients in the fall 1944 and her husband Gecel died during the death march from Buchenwald in April 1945; Czestochowa, Poland; circa 1935.
Archival History
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of Chana Batista
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2001 by Chana Batista.
Scope and Content
Consists of a registration certificate; issued in Czestochowa, Poland, on 14 January 1944, attesting to the fact that Eugenia Koziarska (in reality Sara Rozen; now: Chana Batista) was a Catholic and resided with Henryk and Gertruda Zielonka and a copy photograph bearing the image of Gecel Rozyn (or Rozen), the donor’s father, who was murdered in the Buchenwald, Germany, concentration camp in 1945.
People
- Rozyn, Gecel.
- Chana Batista
Subjects
Genre
- Document
- Certificates.