Regina and Halina Goldwag collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn105272
• English
• 1944-1949
• folders 9
• Updated 12 months ago

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Regina (née Zak) Goldwag and her daughter Halina (later Halina Rosenberg), both of Warsaw, Poland. Both women survived the war under the false identities of Polish non-Jews Jadwiga and Halina Orlowska. Documents of Halina Goldwag include wartime documents under the false identity used while she was a forced-laborer in several concentration camps in Leipzig, immigration papers, and restitution documentation. Photographs include pre-war family photographs of the Zak and Goldwag families, post-war photographs of Halina and Regina in the...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn105300
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Rentenbank note, valued at 1 Rentenmark, acquired by Regina Zak Goldwag or her daughter Halina while in Germany during or after World War II. The money was distributed for use in Germany from January 1937 to 1948. Regina and her two children, Halina and Ludwik, were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the sum...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn105314
• English
• overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Identification badge worn by Regina Zak Goldwag, or her daughter Halina, while working as forced laborers at the Dr. Gaspary & Co. factory in Markranstädt, Germany, at the end of World War II. Regina and her two children, Halina and Ludwik, were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the summer of 1942, they...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn105322
• English
• overall: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Luggage tag used by Regina Zak Goldwag while sailing on the Marine Flasher, the first transport of refugees to the United States in May 1946. Regina and her two children, Halina and Ludwik, were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the summer of 1942, they were introduced to someone who could smuggle them out ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn105344
• English
• overall: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
• Updated 12 months ago

Luggage tag used by Halina Goldwag Rosenberg while sailing on the Marine Flasher, the first transport of refugees to the United States in May 1946. Halina, her mother, Regina and her brother, Ludwik were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the summer of 1942, they were introduced to someone who could smuggle ...