Overview
- Description
- 3 telegrams received by Morris Sklarsky in New York regarding updates to the fates of his niece Chiena Ewrebin and her brothers David Ewrebin and Schloma Ewrebin.
The first telegram, dated 24 May 1945 was sent by Rabbi Aizik Shea and incorrectly identifies Chiena as his nephew. It reads: YOUR NEPHEW CHYENE YEVERBIN SLABODKA BORN 1925 ARRIVED SWEDEN FROM GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP CONTACT RABBI WILHELEM WOLBE STOCKHOLM 11 OLOFGATAN
RABBI AIZIK SHEA
The second telegram, dated 19 June 1945 was sent by Wilhelm Wolbe. It reads: MONEY RECEIVED ELEVENTH MONTH AGO DAVID TVREBIN REMAIN KONCENTRATOPMCAMP STUTTHOF SINCE THEM WITHOUT COMMUNICATION ALSO WITHOUT COMMUNICATION REGARDING SCHLOJME WHO WAS DEPORTED WITH CHILDRENTRANSPORT
WILHELM WOLBE
The third telegram, dated 10 or 19 September 1945 was sent by Chiena Ewrebin. It reads: DAVID GERETTET DAVOS - Date
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creation:
1945
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of the Krohnengold Gerson Family in memory of the Sklarsky family
- Collection Creator
- Morris Sklarsky
- Biography
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Morris Sklarsky (1889-1961) was born on January 19, 1889 in Lithuania to Chaykiel Sklarsky (1856-1931) and Dina Rachel Frankel (b. 1859). He immigrated to the United States in 1905 and married Minnie Rose (1896-1974). They had two daughters, Libby (1922-2018) and Vivian (1931-2018). He worked as a Yiddish book publisher in New York.
His sister Chaya Ewrebin (née Sklarsky, 1898-1941) was married to Haim Ewrebin (1896-1941) and they had five children: Chiena (later Chiena Ewrebin Jacobson, b. 1925) , David (b. 1927?), Schloma (1927-1944), Moshe (1929-1941), and Chaikl (1933-1943). The family lived in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Chaya, Haim, and Moshe all perished in mass executions in Kovno (Kaunas) in 1941. Chaikl perished at Auschwitz in 1943. Schloma was deported to Stutthof and then Auschwitz where he perished in 1944.
Chiena was deported from the Kaunas ghetto in July 1941 to Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia. She was transferred to Stuffhof in July 1944. She also survived Bergen-Belsen before liberation in Hamburg in April 1945. She went to Sweden after liberation. She married Isaac W. Jacobson in New York in 1947, but later lived in Israel.
David was deported from the Kaunas ghetto in July 1941 to Auwara and Goldfilz and then Stutthof in summer 1944. He was later transferred to the Buchenwald subcamps of Ordruf and Crawinkel, and was liberated from Buchenewald in April 1945. After liberation he was in a hospital in Tiefenau, Switzerland. He was a student in Montreux in 1946, and later immigrated to Israel.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Telegrams.
- Extent
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1 folder
- System of Arrangement
- The collection is arranged as a single series.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Jews--Lithuania--Kaunas. Holocaust survivors.
- Geographic Name
- Kaunas (Lithuania)
- Personal Name
- Sklarsky, Morris. Ewrebin, Chiena. Ewrebin, David. Ewrebin, Schloma.
- Corporate Name
- Stutthof (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2021 by Marsha Krohnengold Gerson, granddaughter of Morris Sklarsky.
- Record last modified:
- 2024-11-07 10:55:12
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The collection consists of 3 telegrams received by Morris Sklarsky in New York regarding updates to the fates of his niece Chiena Ewrebin and her brothers David Ewrebin and Schloma Ewrebin. Additionally, there is a pin from the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress that reads: "Boycott Nazi Germany/Joint Boycott Council"
