Overview
- Description
- Contains information about the early life of Mara Cygielstrejch in Lvov (L'viv), Poland, her flight to the Soviet Union, and her eventual emigration to Israel.
- Date
-
creation:
1993
- Collection Creator
- Mara Cygielstrejch
- Biography
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Mara Cygielstrejch was born April 18, 1908 in Zablotow, Poland. She spend her childhood in Lvov. In 1949, Cygielstrejch left Poland for Israel and settled in Tel Aviv.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- The donor, source institution, or a third party has asserted copyright over some or all of these material(s). The Museum does not own the copyright for the material and does not have authority to authorize use. For permission, please contact the rights holder(s).
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews, Polish. Holocaust survivors.
- Geographic Name
- L'viv (Ukraine) Soviet Union. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Personal Name
- Cygielstrejch, Mara (Mina Pistyner)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The memoir was handwritten in Polish by Mara Cygielstrejch on her eighty-fifth birthday in 1993. Along with a typed Polish copy and an English translation, it was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collections Department by her nephew, Mieczyslaw Cegielski. The three versions of the memoir were transferred from the Collections and Acquisitions Department to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Dec. 1993.
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- 2023-02-24 14:00:43
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Zofia Cygielsztrajch letter
Document
Letter, written by Zofia (Zosia) Cygielsztrajch (donor's sister) in February 1943, at age nineteen, while she was in hiding in Warsaw. The letter describes living conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto, her escape of Warsaw Ghetto, and her experiences in hiding.
Mieczyslaw Cegielski papers
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Mieczyslaw Cegielski photograph collection
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The collection consists of a photograph of Aleksander Stasiak as a young man and a photograph of Gustawa (Gitla) Braun Cygielsztrajach donor's mother at age 26 taken around 1918. Aleksander Stasiak was a neighbor of the Cygielsztrajach family and hid the donor's sister, Zosia, during World War II. Gustawa Cygielsztrajach died in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, in December 1941 at the age of 49.
"Difficult years"
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