Joseph Wardzala collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3349
• English
• overall: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Food ration coupon issued to Joseph Wardzala for Lebenstedt Firmenlager, a work camp near Braunschweig, Germany. The coupon has separate sections for warm and cold food and for sugar rations. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. In April 1941, Joseph, age 18, a Roman Catholic, was kidnapped by the Germans from the streets of Tarnow and deported to Watenstedt-Salzgitter labor camp in northwest Germany. He was forced to work in construction for the German Army. Joseph was liberated by American troops in April 1945. He was taken to a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation A...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3350
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, issued to 18 year old Joseph Wardzala in 1941 to identify him as a Polish forced laborer in the Watenstedt-Salzgitter labor camp in northwest Germany. German regulations required the workers to wear the badge with the purple band visible around the P on the right chest to keep them separate from the German populace. During the German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945, many non-Jewish Polish people were sent to Germany as conscript labor for civilian labor details on farms and factories. Workers sometimes volunteered for the forced labor service, but...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn523001
• English
• 1943
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The identification card ("Kennkarte") was issued to Marianna Wardzala in 1943 in Tarnów, Poland.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548939
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 7 months ago

The papers consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Joseph Wardzala, a Roman Catholic who was deported from Poland to a forced labor camp in Germany during World War II.