Paul Janish memoir

Identifier
irn73320
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2014.175.1
Dates
1 Jan 1978 - 31 Dec 1978
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • Polish
Source
EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn73320

Extent and Medium

folders

2

Creator(s)

  • Paul Janish

Biographical History

Paul Janish (1899-1993) was born Pawel Janiszewski in Warsaw. He survived the Warsaw ghetto and hid on the Aryan side of Warsaw from September 21, 1942 until the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in September 1944. He immigrated to the United States in 1951.

Archival History

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Joseph Lubell.

Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014 by Joseph Lubell, Paul Janish's nephew.

Scope and Content

Memoir written by Paul Janish (born Pawel Janiszewski), who survived the Warsaw ghetto. One of just three survivors of his large family, he hid on the Aryan side of Warsaw from September 21, 1942 until the suppression of the Warsaw Uprising in September 1944. Memoir consists of two notebooks, manuscript, written in 1978.

Subjects

  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Warsaw--Personal narratives.

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.