Overview
- Description
- Collection of six photographs depicting Hana Gorodecka (donor's paternal grandmother); Julia Rabinowicz's (donor's mother's) friends Zosia and Jurek Flasjszman, who survived together in the Łódź ghetto; Tadek Gothelf, husband of Jadzia Gorodecka (donor's paternal aunt); Sabina Rabinowicz (donor's maternal aunt) who perished; as well as a post-war family portrait of Ida Marzan, a co-worker of Dr. Janusz Korczak.
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Olga Lax
- Collection Creator
- Olga Lax
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Extent
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1 folder
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Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Olga Lax donated the Olga Lax collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2011.
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- 2024-04-01 11:41:20
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Also in Julia Rabinowicz collection
The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experience of Julia Rabinowicz ahd her family during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Date: 1940-1949
Small leather wallet with buckle used by a teenage girl to hold her diary in a labor camp
Object
Small leather wallet owned by Julia Rabinowicz. She used it to hold miniature notebooks where she wrote about her experiences during the Holocaust. In 1939, the Germans invaded and occupied Poland. The next year, Julia, her parents, Becalel and Solomea, and her sister, Krystyna, were interned in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź. In August 1944, when she was 17 years old, Julia and her mother were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Julia was then transferred to the Kratzau labor camp in Czechoslovakia, where she was liberated on May 9, 1945. Her parents perished in the Holocaust. Her sister survived. Julia returned to Łódź after the war and, until 1949, lived in the Helenowek children’s home, operated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
Olga Lax papers
Document
The papers consist of a photo album and photographs of Julia Rabinowicz [donor's mother] and her friends in the children's home in Helenowek near Łódź, Poland, from 1946 to 1949; other photographs showing Julia, her sister, Krystyna, and her parents before and during World War II in the ghetto in Łódź; miniature notebooks in a small bag; an autograph book; notes written on birch bark; two documents stating that Julia Rabinowicz has been released from Kratzau (Chrastava), Czechoslovakia, and is returning to her hometown of Łódź; a document issued by the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland, stating that Julia Rabinowicz was imprisoned in the Łódź ghetto and in August 1944 was deported to Auschwitz; and other documents.
Pencil sketch of an older man given to a Jewish refugee in a postwar orphanage
Object
Pencil sketch of a man owned by Julia Rabinowicz, possibly acquired while she was in the Helenowek children's home. In 1939, the Germans invaded and occupied Poland. The next year, Julia, her parents, Becalel and Solomea, and her sister, Krystyna, were interned in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź. In August 1944, when she was 17 years old, Julia and her mother were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Julia was then transferred to the Kratzau labor camp in Czechoslovakia, where she was liberated on May 9, 1945. Her parents perished in the Holocaust. Her sister survived. Julia returned to Łódź after the war and, until 1949, lived in the Helenowek children’s home, operated by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.
