Jakob Lewkowicz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9867
• English
• overall: Height: 26.125 inches (66.358 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Striped concentration camp uniform pants issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 1943...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9868
• English
• overall: Height: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 194...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9869
• English
• overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Diameter: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Striped concentration camp uniform cap issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 1943, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9870
• English
• 1945
• overall: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps,] owned by Jakob Lewkowicz, who spent several years as a concentration camp prisoner. It was published soon after the war by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre. Jakob’s name and those of others, likely his relatives, are inscribed within. Before the Holocaust, Jakob live...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn9871
• English
• 1947
• overall: Height: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

A copy of “Tsurik fun Gehenem: 22 tseykhenungen fun Berl Friedler” [Back from Hell : 22 collected sketches by Berl Friedler,] published in 1947 and owned by Jakob Lewkowicz, who spent who spent several years as a concentration camp prisoner. The bound book contains a series of 21 color-printed, chronological sketches drawn and published by Holocaust survivor Berl Fridler. The sketches are preceded by a Yiddish-language forward written by Paul Trepman. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days af...