Morris Sklarsky papers

Morris Sklarsky (1889-1961) was born on 19 January 1889 in Lithuania to Chaykiel Sklarsky (1856-1931) and Dina Rachel Frankel (b. 1859). He immigrated to the United States in 1905 and married Minnie Rose (1896-1974). They had one daughter, Libby (1922-2018). He worked as a Yiddish book publisher in New York. His sister Chaya Ewrebin (née Sklarsky, 1898-1941) was married to Haim Ewrebin (1896-1941) and they had five children: Chiena (later Chiena Ewrebin Jacobson, b. 1925) , David (b. 1927?), Schloma (1927-1944), Moshe (1929-1941), and Chaikl (1933-1943). The family lived in Kaunas, Lithuania. Chaya, Haim, and Moshe all perished in mass executions in Kovno (Kaunas) in 1941. Chaikl perished at Auschwitz in 1943. Schloma was deported to Stutthof and then Auschwitz where he perished in 1944. Chiena was deported from the Kaunas ghetto in July 1941 to Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia. She was transferred to Stuffhof in July 1944. She also survived Bergen-Belsen before liberation in Hamburg in April 1945. She went to Sweden after liberation. She married Isaac W. Jacobson in New York in 1947, but later lived in Israel. David was deported from the Kaunas ghetto in July 1941 to Auwara and Goldfilz and then Stutthof in summer 1944. He was later transferred to the Buchenwald subcamps of Ordruf and Crawinkel, and was liberated from Buchenewald in April 1945. After liberation he was in a hospital in Tiefenau, Switzerland. He was a student in Montreux in 1946, and later immigrated to Israel.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of the Krohnengold Gerson Family in memory of the Sklarsky family

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2021 by Marsha Krohnengold Gerson, granddaughter of Morris Sklarsky.