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Zenon Nowak letter

Document | Accession Number: 2015.354.1

Date: 1941 (creation)
Language: German
Extent: 1 letter.
1 envelope.
Extent: 1 folder
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Catherine Hamilton

Document Creator: Zenon Nowak
Biography: Zenon Nowak was born on 16 December 1922 in Ruda Pabianicka, Poland, a suburb of Łódź. Records from the Dachau concentration camp show that he was brought to the camp by train on 26 May 1940 as a Polish prisoner ("Schutzhaftling"). Records indicate he may have been liberated from that camp, but are inconclusive.
Topical Term: Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Dachau--Correspondence.
Geographic Name: Łódź (Poland)
Corporate Name: Dachau (Concentration camp)
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: Catherine Hamilton donated this collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2017-06-09 14:30:14
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