Ben Giladi papers

Identifier
irn522600
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2005.126.1
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn522600

Extent and Medium

folder

1

Creator(s)

  • Ben Giladi

Biographical History

Ben Giladi (1925-2012) was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Following the German invasion in 1939, he spent his adolescent years in the Piotrków ghetto, working in a glass factory. When the ghetto was dissolved, he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, and later, to Dora-Mittelbau. He was liberated in Nordhausen in April 1945, and returned to Poland, studying at the University of Łódź, before immigrating to Israel in 1950. There he married Guta (Tova) Flatto, also a native of Piotrków, and in 1959 the Giladis immigrated to the United States, settling in Kew Gardens, New York. Ben Giladi was the longtime editor of several newsletter publications of the Piotrków Trybunalski Survivors Association, as well as the editor of the book "A Tale of One City: Piotrków Trybunalski" (New York: Shengold Publications, 1991).

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ben Giladi

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ben Giladi and Tova Giladi

The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2005 by Ben Giladi. An accretion to this collection was donated by Tova Giladi in 2014.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of 49 photographs and a scrapbook of photographs pertaining to Ben Giladi's family and friends in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. The scrapbook also contains photographs and text that Giladi assembled while editor of the "New Bulletin-The Voice of Piotrków Survivors."

People

  • Ben Giladi

Subjects

  • Piotrków Trybunalski (Poland)
  • Holocaust survivors--New York (State)--New York--Periodicals.
  • Holocaust survivors--United States.
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
  • Holocaust survivors--Israel.
  • Holocaust survivors--Australia.
  • Holocaust survivors' writings.
  • Holocaust survivors--Great Britain.
  • Jews--Poland--Piotrków Trybunalski.
  • Holocaust survivors--Sweden.

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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