Giza and Leon Falik and Mildred Stern collection
Acquisition
The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1995 by Leon Falik and in 2016 by Shelley Falik and Imy Wax, the children of Leon and Giza Falik.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of three US Army woman's uniform jackets, one matching cap, a bag of loose military buttons, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.
Genre
- Collection