Rosa Freimann and Sigmund Scheichkorn papers
Contains documents concerning the experiences of Rosa Freimann and Sigmund Scheichkorn (donor's parents) during and after the Holocaust in Poland and Germany: papers include a "kennkarte", a false identity card issued to Rosa under the alias Helena Krembiak dated February 15, 1943 in Warsaw, Poland; a poem written by Rosa in May 1944; and numerous postwar documents issued to Rosa and Sigmund who lived in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the War and eventually immigrated to New York.
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Identification card.
Postcards.
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1 folder
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Lilli Cutler
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Also in Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn collection
The collection consists of artifacts and photographs related to the experiences of Rosa and Zygmunt Schleichkorn in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: 1947
Doily printed with the portrait photograph of a young bride in a displaced persons camp
Object
Doily featuring a photographic portrait of Rosa Freimann Schleichkorn. It was created to commemorate her wedding to Zygmont Schleichkorn around 1947 in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany. In 1940, Rosa escaped from the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto and hid in a convent. She later moved to Warsaw and assumed a false identity as a Catholic. When that ghetto was about to be destroyed in spring 1943, she paid someone to smuggle her out. Zygmont was interned by the Germans in the ghetto in Bochnia, Poland. It was emptied by the summer of 1943, but Zygmont and his family had hidden in the forest where they were discovered by the Gestapo. Zygmont escaped, but everyone else was shot and killed. After the war ended in May 1945, both Rosa and Zygmont made their way to the displaced persons camp in Germany. Their daughter, Lilli, was born in the camp in September 1948 and, in 1949, they left for the United States.
Doily printed with the wedding photograph of a young couple married in a displaced persons camp
Object
Doily featuring a photographic portrait of Rosa Freimann and Zygmont Schleichkorn. It was created to celebrate their wedding around 1947 in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany. In 1940, Rosa escaped from the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto and hid in a convent. She later moved to Warsaw and assumed a false identity as a Catholic. When that ghetto was about to be destroyed in spring 1943, she paid someone to smuggle her out. Zygmont was interned by the Germans in the ghetto in Bochnia, Poland. It was emptied by the summer of 1943, but Zygmont and his family had hidden in the forest where they were discovered by the Gestapo. Zygmont escaped, but everyone else was shot and killed. After the war ended in May 1945, both Rosa and Zygmont made their way to the displaced persons camp in Germany. Their daughter, Lilli, was born in the camp in September 1948 and, in 1949, they left for the United States.
