Machtinger family collection

Document | Digitized | Accession Number: 1988.090.2

Overview

Description: The Machtinger family collection includes photographs of Sophie Machtinger, Paul Machtinger, and their daughter Ruth Machtinger in the Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) in 1946, as well as Sophie Machtinger's memoir "Recollections from my life's experiences" written in Polish in 1955 and translated into English in 1988.
Date: inclusive: 1946-1988
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Mort Faller
Collection Creator: Machtinger family
Biography: Sophie Machtinger (1910-2010) was born on December 10, 1910 in Lódz, Poland. Paul Machtinger (1909-2000) was born on October 6, 1909 in Lódz, Poland. They married on December 24, 1938. Sophie was imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto and the following concentration camps: Pirna, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Stuffhof, Dresden, and Theresienstadt. Paul Machtinger was imprisoned in the Lódz ghetto and the following concentration camps: Pirna, Stutthof, Posen, Dresden, Auschwitz, and Theresienstadt. They were both liberated from Theresienstadt in 1945. Their daughter, Ruth Machtinger was born in Landsberg displaced persons camp in Germany on July 23, 1946. Ruth married Morton Faller and they had two children, Bryan and Scott Faller. Paul Machtinger died on September 9, 2000. Sophie Machtinger died in Maryland on January 9, 2010. Their daughter, Ruth Faller died on February 7, 2018.

Language: Polish English
Genre/Form: Personal narratives. Memoirs. Photographs.
Extent: 3 folders
System of Arrangement: The Machtinger family collection is arranged in a single series.

Conditions on Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
Conditions on Use: Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this material. The user is solely responsible for making a determination as to if and how the material may be used.

Topical Term: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors. Blockälteste. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps. Forced migration--Poland. Health facilities. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jewish property. Jews--Poland. Holocaust victims. Sonderkommandos. Typhus fever. Starvation. Women concentration camp inmates. Weapons industry--Germany--Dresden--Employees--History--20th century.
Geographic Name: Łódź (Poland) Dresden (Germany) Germany. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Personal Name: Machtinger, Sophie, 1910-2020. Machtinger, Paul, 1909-2000. Faller, Ruth, 1946-2018. Rumkowski, Mordecai Hayim. Machtinger, Moniek.
Corporate Name: Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Stutthof (Concentration camp)

Holder of Originals: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Mort Faller donated the Machtinger family collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 and 2018.
Funding Note: The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Related Materials: Legacy Accession Number: 1988.090
Legacy Accession Number: 2018.607
Primary Number: 1988.090.2